Mr. Chairman. the .United States is a member of the International Refugee Organization under the United Nations. We have assumed the legitimate obligation to take care of refugees under the United Nations. This problem of the Arab and Jewish refugees has come up in a strategic area that affects our safety and calls for our humanitarian judgment. I believe it is necessary to pass this bill today because on Monday there will be a meeting of the Arab nations with our representative to work out the refugee problems. We will greatly strengthen the hands of our representative if we pass this bill at the present time. In addition. we have negotiations going on with various of these countries that. if we act as we should and take the responsibility for that area as we have taken it for others will be very -much to the advantage of the United States. I believe. too. that because this is an area where both Jews and Arabs are involved and we have taken care of the Jewish displaced persons under the International Refugee Organization. in all equity. we should extend the same assistance to the Arabs who are likewise displaced. Let us be just and friendly to the distressed of these two great peoples. May I finish by complimenting the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. the gentleman from West Virginia.
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