The DPs who are and have been the concern of the IRO have undergone registration and other identifying processes. Some of these have now been pending for several years. There has been much criticism on the floor of the Senate that some ineligible persons have been able to get visas because of the lack of information or because of false information as to date of entry. background. and other similar considerations. If the present definition is adopted it will make eligible some 8.000.000 people who have not been the subject of international care and control. who have not been registered and recorded by military and international agents and about whose background we have little or no information. In many instances their presence in the pertinent areas Is of such duration that their general behavior and record are not those upon which our agents can predicate judgment with the same certainty that they have been able to exercise by watching people who have been under international supervision for a number of years.