President. the issue was the construction of the language in the 1949 bill relating to those who were from some country to which they could not return. but who perhaps had a chance to return to some other country. Language which was different from the Senate bill and different from the House bill in 1949. was put in the conference report and became the law. I was told by those who framed that language that it meant that a person would be considered a displaced person if he or she could not return to the country of his or her origin. but they used the language "any such country." and in the first case that came before the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization it was held by him that "any such country" referred to any country to which possibly under the law such persons could return. The case then pending dealt with a man whose father was a Greek and whose mother was a Rumanian. and who had been a resident of Rumania and was a refugee from Rumania. But on account of his alleged Greek citizenship. because his father was a Greek. it was ruled that he was not eligible inasmuch as he could technically return to Greece. but he could not return to Greece because of the unemployment there. they would not accept him. There was another case. of a Polish woman who was a refugee from Poland. to which. of course. she could not return. She had been married to a Britisher. who left her. I understand. about a month after the marriage. and possibly she had some technical right to return to Great Britain. but no actual right to do so.
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