Also that provision of 40 percent was utterly unworkable and bogged down the machinery of the Displaced Persons Commission. Reflect one moment. if the Commission does not receive assurances covering these preferred people. the effect of this would be to shrink the whole program. For example. if only 40.000 displaced persons from these preferred areas were found eligible for entry into the United States. then only 60.000 others could be granted visas and thus only 100.000 instead of the originally anticipated 200.000 would be permitted to reach this country. If 20 percent of the total number of 200.000 now permitted would be Balts you cut down by 50 percent the balance of all other nationalities. the balance of all other DPs. Such results are ridiculous as well as discriminatory.