I am one of the sponsors of the socalled Kilgore substitute. I want today to speak briefly to the subject of the basic de_2nition of a displaced person. and the differences between the definition in the committee amendment and the definition in the Kilgore substitute. and how they compare with the present law. When the present law was under discussion. and finally was passed. its purpose we generally felt to be the United States attempt to do its fair share toward offering a home to men. women. and children who were under the International Refugee Organization. This Organization had previously been approved unanimously by the Senate. It was clear that it could not go on indefinitely without a tremendous drain on the pocketbooks of the American taxpayers. and that it could not go on without hurting human beings who had no place to call home and who were truly refugees from persecution. The definition which was adopted. and which is at present in the law. is the exact one that is contained in Annex L of the IRO constitution. When this definition was passed in the Senate. the principal argument concerned the date on which the displaced persons had to be in the camps in order to be included as displaced persons.
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