June 30. 1950. there will remain only a few thousand such wardisplaced persons in central Europe. other than the socalled "hard core." who are Ineligible for resettlement because of social or physical disqualifications. The number included in this group is reliably estimated as 170.000 persons. This statement was made to me repeatedly during the course of my investigation by officials of every agency of our Government operating in Europe. and by former highranking Army and Navy personnel who are now employed by the International Refugee Organization. In fact. Mr. Ugo Carusi of the Displaced Persons Commission confirmed this statement beforethe Judiciary Committee a few days ago. Because we will have exhausted most of the persons eligible for immigration to the United States by the end of the present act. June 30. 1950. in considering legislation to extend the operation of the act for 1 year. to June 30. 1951. it seems to me there are only two things that may be done. and either of these. or both. could be included in such legislation. namely. (1) to rewrite our definition of a displaced person so as to expand the category of persons who are eligible under our act. even though they may not be eligible under annex I of the constitution of the IRO. or (2) to change the socalled cutoff date of December 22. 1945. for eligibility. I therefore recommended. as a result of our studies. that section 2 (b) of the present law be repealed so as to divorce eligibility under our law from discretionary determinations of the IRO for the reasons which I have heretofore stated. and also so that our definition of a displaced person would be expanded to include war displaced persons of World War II who are not now eligible because they are excluded by the interpretive definition of the IRO constitution.
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