Session #81 · 1949–51

Speech #810076356

They will make worthy citizens. and they will aid our intelligence and our counterintelligence departments of the Army and the State Department." Only with the approval of the State Department and War Department officials. can those 15.000 come into the country. Also we provided for 2.000 additional orphans. We provided for 4.000 Shanghai refugees. They are to be principally but not exclusively white Russians. who had been able to escape the onslaughts and the coming of the Communists at Shanghai. Take 18.000 Poles. 15.000 of those antiCommunists who have escaped from behind the iron curtain. 2.000 orphans. 4.000 refugees from Shanghai. and you have 39.000. We ask. therefore. that you give these poor .unfortunates the right to come into this country. There are presently in displacedpersons camps about 700.000.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Poles
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
EMANUEL CELLER
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
810076356
Paragraph
#0
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