IRO in fact maintains a legal division just to try to get pardons for displaced persons. Mr. Tripp is now in charge of the immigration detail for all Europe. He is a career man in the Government. Testimony before the committee by field employees of the Displaced Persons Commission. and by the officer in charge of the immigration detail in Europe. described numerous instances of pressure by officers of the Displaced Persons Commission in every phase of the operation. This pressure is exerted not only on the employees of the Commission. but upon the United States consuls and upon the immigration officers. Seven out of nine employees in the office under one area director. who had formerly been associated with a voluntary agency. went to the European headquarters to protest. but were transferred. One field employee of the Displaced Persons Commission testified with respect to the action of a senior officer of the Commission who had sought a pardon for a convicted displaced person in order to make him eligible for immigration Into the United States. Another field employee testified that approximately 50 percent of his rejections of ineligible displaced persons were overruled. That is a matter of public record.
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