By that is meant one who is being supported by IRO funds and being cared for out of such funds. The committee bill deletes this provision and substitutes a new statutory definition which includes not only the displaced persons for which the IRO has been given responsibility. but also some 8.000.000 expellees who are not now the concern of any international body. It is this definition which dilutes the availability to the IRO displaced persons of the authorized number of visas. In other words. the House bill. and the proposed substitute bill. would give to the German ethnicorigin group. who compose the main part of the expellees a total of 54.744 visas. Except for certain selected groups for which we are charged. for instance Anders Army Poles. the 10.000 Greeks. the 4.000 refugees who originally were refugees from Europe to Shanghai. and now are refugees from the Communists in Shanghai. a great many of them being in the Philippine Islands at the present time. they having fled to any place where they could find refugeexcept for those persons the remainder of the bill is taken up with displaced persons within the meaning of the IRO definition. These are persons for whom we are now conducting camps. issuing food rations. in other words. who are now what might be called upon international relief. of which amount of relief we are paying almost 70 percent of the total. As I stated before. that total we contributed to the IRO amounted last year to $70.000.000.
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