Hungary. Poland. and Rumania. and thrust into Germany and Austria. When the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948 was enacted it contained a provision. section 115 (e). directing the ECA Administrator to encourage arrangements among the ECA nations. in conjunction with the International Refugee Organization. for the best practicable utilization of manpower available in any of the ECA countries to help achieve econoidaic recovery on the part of Western Europe as a whole. Last year Congress added to section 115 (e) an additional sentence reading: The Administrator shall also encourage emigration from participating countries having permanent surplus manpower to areas. particularly underdeveloped and dependent areas. where such manpower can be effectively utilized. This is now part of the ECA Act. and is included by reference in the bill now before us. Section 101 (a) (2) of the pending bill refers directly to the provision in the ECA Act to which I have just referred and provides that a certain sum of moneyin the committee amendment. $10.000.000 and in my amendment. $15.000.000be made available to effectuate these purposesthe effective utilization of manpower available in any of the ECA countries and the encouragement of emigration from any of the countries with permanent surplus manpower to areas where this manpower can be effectively utilized. The ECA Act makes clear the desirability of converting this excess population into a producing part of the population. into a contributing part of the population. It is our national purpose to encourage this movement of population. not only for the sake of the countries on whom these people are an insupportable burden. but also in order to enable these people to make their full contribution to the welfare of the free world. as well as to their own wellbeing.
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