Mr. President. if the only question were the resettlement of the wardisplaced persons. there would be no need for the legislation now pending before the Senate. The fact is. however. that since the end of the war there has been a continuous flow of refugees into Germany and Austria from the surrounding eastern European countries. They have entered the displacedpersons camps at the average rate of 25.000 a month since the end of 1945. It has been the policy of the occupying powers not to close the borders. but to tacitly encourage politically oppressed and persecuted peoples from behind the iron curtain to escape from the Communistcontrolled governments. These people have been received and. for the most part. maintained in the displacedpersons camps. The cost to the United States Government has been $73.000.000 a year. which we have contributed to the International Refugee Organization. and the many millions of dollars which we have appropriated to the support and relief of Germany and Austria. Not all these persons have found immediate haven in the displacedpersons camps. but it is a fact that many thousands have been successful in eventually acquiring displacedpersons status. Immigration to America is their ultimate goal. I feel sure. Mr.
Keywords matched
Immigration Refugee refugees