This organization. actually created by the Congress of the United States. no comprises 27 nations of the Free World. Our aim in creating ICEMoutside of the United Nations. I might add. for the obvious purpose of eliminating Soviet Communist interferencewas to establish an international instrumentality equipped to furnish migration services in order to increase the volume of European emigration to overseas countries whose economic development depends on the acquisition of manpower. It was our desire to build an organization which would be able to insure smooth and humane accomplishment of migratory movements and the settlement of the migrants under the most favorable conditions for their quick integration and assimilation into the economic and social life of their countries of adoption. We did not intend to create for ICEM a monopoly in the field of migration. and we have provided that migration services will be offered by ICEM only to those migrants who could not otherwise be moved. In that connection. I might add that at the present time 40 percent of all emigration from Europe proceeds through ICEM and the facilities which that organization is equipped to offer. Conversely. it should be recognized that the volume of emigration from Europe would be smaller to the extent of 40 percent if ICEM were not in existence. It is not my desire to burden the House with an impressive story of facts and figures pertaining to ICEMs activities in the past as well as with the details of the stepslegislative and diplomaticwhich led to the creation of that organization in the fall of 1951 at Brussels. Belgium.
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