There is the question of the safety of our form of Government. There is also the question of whether public officials now charged with a duty have discharged their duty. When we wrote the Displaced Persons Act in 1948. we specifically provided that the immigration authorities of the United States Government should. under the law. control the issuance of visas and the screening of applicants. By practice. but not by law. that control has been taken away from the immigration authorities and placed almost exclusively in two agencies. one of which is not controlled by the Government of the United States. the other of which is so controlled. The one that it is not so controlled is the International Refugee Organization. over which we have but incidental control. We have appropriated and expended millions of dollars in order to sustain the IRO. We entered into an agreement with other nations of the world that we would participate with them in taking care of those -who had been displaced following World War II. numbering about 8.000.000. 7.000.000 of whom were repatriated. leaving about 1.000.000 who had to be dealt with through action of the nations of the world. and we agreed to participate.
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