High Commissioner for Refufees. and nobody else. We are exposed. in my judgment. to about onefourth of 22.000 people. There has been much discussion as to the number of refugees. and conflicting figures are being presented from various sources all the time. Some months ago. I said there were 28.000 people in the camps. This caused considerable consternation in the ranks of those people who have made this business of moving refugees a very profitable one. Just this morning. I talked with some people at the United Nations in New York. I was advised that the number is not 28.000 but it is now about 22.000. As I said earlier. we have written into the bill a provision under which the number we take will be determined by the total number of defined refugees taken by other nations participating in this program. That number is readily ascertainable so that in the opinion of your committee. the maximum number that could be taken. assuming that everybody in the camps wants to move. and I am sure that is not the case. our share will always represent 25 percent of those moved elsewhere. If my colleagues will indulge me for a moment. I would like to tell of a conversation I had with a cabinet minister of the appropriate agency of the Austrian Government. He pointed out that most of these people are old. He said that emigration is not an attractive thing when people are over 35I am sure that is the case. As I was saying. the numbers that would be moved would be relatively small. In view of the fact that we have actually been a participating sponsor of this World Refugee Year. it seems to me we are almost compelled to adopt the kind of legislation which will indicate our desire to participate and also the limits within which that participation will take place.
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Emigration is not attractive when people are over 35