Mr. President. we have just had transmitted to Congress the semiannual report on the refugee relief program. On page 13 of that report is found the following sentence: At the same time. the present imbalance of sponsors and applicants in certain categories and for certain areas of operation may cause 40.000 to 50.000 visas to go unused under the Refugee Relief Act. This is not news. We have known for some time that the way in which the program was being administered would mean that it would fall far short of its goal. The first official admission of this came from the Director of the refugee relief program. Pierce J. Gerety. who said at the beginning of the year that about 44.000 refugees will be denied admission as a result of the administrations failure to carry out the program properly. Many of us have been warning for some time that this would happen. Actually. the Refugee Relief Act never was a workable instrument for achieving the humanitarian purposes intended by this program. But. in addition. there has been indication in the way this program has been administered of a reluctance on the part of those charged with its administration to make it work. At this point in the RECORD. Mr. President. I would like to have appear an article from the New York Times of March 7. 1956. headlined "Refugees in United States Far Below Goal" and an editorial from the New York Times of March 8. 1956. titled "Refugee Program."
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