They have not been able to bring them in. although their applications were signed in some instances nearly a year ago. That is the reason for this organization in Pennsylvania. called the United Action Committee for Expellees. having a meeting and sending to Washington this resolution. The resolution continues: Whereas these people were for that reason again excluded from consideration as displaced persons by the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 although they have fled or were deported from their homelands because of their religious beliefs. cultural traditions. or national origin. and Whereas discrimination on account of race. creed. or nationality is inconsistent with the great and noble traditions of these United StatesMr. President. with 33.000.000 people of Teutonic origin in America. some of them the outstanding generals and admirals of our country in World War I and World War II. think of the International Refugee Organization being based on a constitution that says little German children can starve to death as far as that organization is concerned. I call attention to men like Stassen. Eisenhower. Wendell Willkie. and men of that type. who came from those very areas. To say that children living in countries that have produced men of that kind can starve to death so far as the International Refugee Organization is concerned. is unthinkable. Is it any wonder that some of us voted against the approval by the Senate of the International Refugee Constitution in an endeavor to get an amendment which would have carried out the wishes of the late President Roosevelt. and which would have permit-. ted those children to be fed and clothed the same as were the children of other nationalities? The resolution continues: Therefore be it Resolved. That this joint conference does request our Congress to amend Public Law 774 to include those of our relatives and friends who were deported or fled from the countries of their birth because of their religious beliefs. their racial or their national. origin. Mr. President.
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