Why should we indulge in any such silly assumption? Why should we not face the facts and trade with these other nations while we have something to trade with? Now. just what kind of cooperation have we had from this International Refugee Organization? It makes no difference to me whether it is legally established or not. the practicalities of the thing are what I am thinking about. This organization of nations which the proponents of this bill want us to believe will assume all the burdens of this problem If we will but take a part of these people. is the same organization which just a few weeks ago ruled against allowing 50.000 of these displaced persons to go to Guatemala. Guatemala has unpopulated lands. She wants immigrants. but she properly wants to know that the people that are coming there are the kind of people who will probably fit into the Guatemalan way of life. They. therefore. asked that the people who might come to their country be of religious belief similar to the religion of Guatemala. What was wrong with that? Was it not simply using a little common sense? What did this organization that is supposed to do so much for us do? It very selfrighteously decided that if Guatemala was going to try to decide what kind of immigrants it wanted that none of them could go and that the United States should keep right on supporting these people whocould just as well as not be supportIng themselves. That is an example of the lack of common sense in this program. Let me call your attention to another Impractical and unfair situation. This bill charges the 200.000 DP immigrants to the regular immigration quotas of the various European countries. On its face that sounds fair enough. It looks as if all it does is to bring some people into this country sooner than they would otherwise get here. but what of the thousands of other Europeans who have been waiting for years to be able to join relatives and friends in the United States?
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