Speech #810154587

In 1927. this number had grown to 4.228.029. In 1946. it had grown to 5.000.000 or approximately onehalf of all the Jews left in the world. According to the same authority. this Jewish yearbook. from 1937 to 1943. by yearly average. more than 60 percent of all immigration into this country was Jewish. Under the Presidents Executive order. Issued on December 22. 1945. through which the Government sought to facilitate the immigration of displaced persons. it was stated that visas should be issued on a pro rata basis among all religions. races. and with preference given to orphan children. Notwithstanding that mandate in the Presidents directive. according to the State Department. over 75 percent of all visas Issued were issued to persons of Jewish faith. Now. Mr. CELLER and the Jewish folks testified for this bill and have always insisted that not more than roughly 25 percent of the persons in DP camps were of Jewish faith. Yet under the Presidents directive. the overwhelming majority of visas were issued to persons of Jewish faith. and under this bill passed in the last Congress. which they say is discriminatory. the big percentage over their normal quota has been issued to persons of Jewish faith. Senator JENNER. I think that Congressman CELLER testifiedand the record will show itthat under the present bill. as I recall. 29 percent of the total immigration was Jewish and 42 percent Catholic. Representative GOSSETT. Rabbi Bernstein. testifying before the House committee In the last session on the bill that was passed last year. testified that more than half of all the Jewish people of the world were now in this country.