Speech #830100049

General Andersare not fully assimilated or resettled. It would represent partial payment of a genuine debt of gratitude if this bill made provision forsay5.000 Polish soldiers in exile. somewhat similar to the provision of the legislation now before the House. S~nate 1917. in its original draft. provided for eligibility of immigrants from Italy. the Netherlands. and Greece on the broad basis of nationals and ethnic origin. The Judiciary Committee limited eligibility from these countries to refugees. In neither casesince the program is emergent and temporary in natureis the quota system established under the McCarranWalter Act changed. There are advantages of the broad eligibility approach as against the allrefugee approach. and I petition a few more moments of the Senates time to outline them. The restriction of the program to refugees in these countries would mean that in Italy. for example. the eligibility of emigrants would be limited to a part of those who returned to Italy from former American colonies at the end of the war and those from the Venezia Giulia area who settled in Italy after the war. For the most part these people are indistinguishable with respect to their economic and social status from the rest of the Italian population. The same in general is true of those who returned to the Netherlands from Indonesia several years ago.