With reference to this provision of the law. Congressman CELLER testified before the subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary: "As I have Indicated before. on this floor of the House. I firmly oppose this provision in its entirety." May I say in passing that although under the provision of the present law. which I have just referred to. 13.000 visas should have been made available during the last fiscal year to displaced persons of German ethnic origin. As of June 1949. only 336 visas have been issued to persons of this group. Thus It is that while pretending to remedy alleged discriminations in the present displaced persons law. the Celler bill is actually replete with discriminations. that while the Celler bill would write new definitions of dispaced persons beyond the scope of the constitution of the International Refugee Organization. this bill would not embrace as a displaced person a single Greek displaced person. a single displaced person of German blood. a single displaced person of Arab extraction. or displaced persons of other equally deserving groups. Now. Mr.
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