I have been somewhat interested in this because I was the author of the original IRO legislation. and it was presented as a temporary measure. I have seen the initials "DP" extend from those who were displaced persons in the Nazi concentration camps to include vast new categories. I was present at the United Nations last November when the Security Council adopted a new setup for the United Nationj for refugees. Mrs. Roosevelt was there and presented very vigorously the American position. which was that our participation was to end when IRO ended in 1951. and she therefore urged that there should be no resolution adopted by the United Nations looking forward to further participation by the United States in this matter of refugees. In spite of the position she took the United Nations committee voted to continue not only to have a United Nations refugee organization but to ask for participation by other countries. Now. I wondered whether this United Nations action which may result as the gentleman says. in either additional requests for appropriations or for legislation. was presented to the gentlemans subcommittee.
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