Speech #810042103

That is not my understanding. The committee was utterly amazed to find that some of these people who had been in these camps for 3 or 4 years. when taken out of the camps and placed on a boat bound for the country to which they were being sent for resettlement. were found to be Communists. Fascists. or other people who did not believe in decent. orderly government. When we were called upon to make appropriations for the International Refugee Organizaton for the coming fiscal year we. found that their budget estimates were made almost a year before the matter came to us. and we found that in those budget estimates no allowance had been made for reduction In food costs or reductions in the price of other commodites. so. in our report we pointed out that we do not expect to have to make any further appropriation in the next fiscal year after the coming one for the purposes of the International Refugee Organizaton. We trust that by that time all of these people will have been cleared out of these camps. and further. that the amount of money which they may need will be on hand at the end of the fiscal year for which we are now appropriating. and will be sufficient to cover any short period of time beyond that until the camps are finally cleared.