Mr. Speaker. there is a great deal of interest in the district which I represent in the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 and in the liberalizing amendment to that act passed in the House on August 17. I congratulate Hon. Louis E. GRAHAM. of Pennsylvania. the author of that amendment and the chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration of the Judiciary Committee. It is my good fortune to serve with him on the Judiciary Committee. although not on his subcommittee. This amendment is a fair extension of some of the provisions of the original Refugee Relief Act which was passed in 1953. That act authorized the admission to this country on special nonquota visas of over 200.000 persons who had fled or escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. or had been expelled from their homelands. Included in this figure were 60.000 of Italian origin and 17.000 of Greek origin. This amendment makes it easier for these persons of Italian and Greek origin to come in under the act.
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