Mr. Chairman. the purpose of this amendment giving 2.000 visas to nationals of Japan is the same as the former amendment for Chinese refugees although the situation is different. These Japanese are not refugees immediately and directly from Communist tyranny. but Japan has had something like four or five million people returned to the already overpopulated homeland from Manchuria. Korea. China. Formosa. and the mandated islands. The bill already has a doublebarreled program in Europe providing. in addition to visas for bona fide refugees. certain token quotas for overpopulated countries to which returnees have been added as in Italy. or.in which many have been uprooted by war or disaster as in Greece and Holland. It certainly is unfair and discriminatory not to do the same thing for Japan in which there are so many returnees. The amendment is particularly important at a time when many in Japan are on the fence with their confidence in us understandably shaken by recent events out in that part of the world.
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