Mr. Speaker. it is a privilege to join in the wellnigh universal tribute which should be paid to President Eisenhower for his letters to the congressional majority leadership recommending the inauguration of a special 2year program to take our fair share of the Iron Curtain refugees and escapees and surplus workers of our XCIX235 friends in Europe. It is my intention to offer implementing legislation and I. have no doubt that the Judiciary Committee will take action on the Presidents recommendation without delay. It is appropriate to recall that the original DP program was developed and enacted through the 80th Congress. In spite of fears expressed at that time there has been not even a breath of scandal in respect of the admission of 330.000 displaced persons under that program and practically no complaint about the competition created by them for jobs or housing. On the contrary. the displaced persons have settled with honor and credit as excellent Americans in a multi-. tude of communities throughout the country and are on the way to becoming excellent United States citizens as is traditional with our immigrants. No expressions. no matter how eloquent. of our desire to join in responsibility for the free worlds problems and no amount of money is equal to the impact upon the free world of our willingness to take our fair share of todays displaced personsthe refugees. the escapees. and the surplus workers among our friends in Europe. No single thing we could do would be more attractive to these who remain behind the Iron Curtain in whom the spirit of freedom lingers. It is the dream of even the possibility of coming to our country which is the greatest attraction to them.
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