This bill is a great improvement over the legislation which was passed in the Eightieth Congress dealing with admissions of displaced persons to the United States. This bill changes the socalled cutoff date from December 22. 1945. to anuary 1. 1949. and it further eliminates the statutory preference of 40 percent and 30 percent. respectively. for displaced persons whose country of origin has been annexed by a foreign power. This bill also increases by 2.000 the number of displaced persons to be admitted as nonquota immigrants. and increases the admissions under the displaced persons qualification to 339.000. After Congress passes this legislation. It will be merely cooperating with other democracies throughout the world who are admitting a pro rata share of displaced persons to their countries. World War II left in its wake the most tremendous dislocated population in all world history. Most of these people were displaced from their original homes by reason of Nazi tyrants and are today without a country through no fault of theirs. It is estimated that there were more than 8.000.000 refugees and displaced persons in western Europe on VEday. The western Allied armies repatriated to their countries of origin over 7.000.000 of this number. A large group of displaced personsPoles.
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