It affects not only certain individual displaced persons. who somehow have retained pride and hope through years of struggle and despair. but also all people everywhere who believe in the democratic ideal. and whose hope for the future is brightened by the existence of Americaa stronghold of freedom where peoples of many races have a common heritage. Our responsibility to take effective action stems from our moral obligation not to tUrn our backs on those left stranded by the war. It stems also from our commitment. as a member of the International Refugee Organization. to help carry out the resettlement of displaced persons for whose care the IRO is responsible. And there is the additional factor that it is to our own immediate financial selfinterest to take action which will enable us to close the camps we are now maintaining at considerable expense in the American zone in Germany. I wish to emphasize that point. because in some of the discussions I have had with my friends on this subject I have found that they have not realized that since the close of the war. since VEday in Europe. we have had the responsibility and we have had the cost of taking care of these camps where so many thousands of displaced persons have been taken care of.