Speech #860269923

I regret that the conferees have not seen fit to report the amendment which the Senate agreed to last night. I am heartened. however. to learn that the House committee will go to the Far East and to the Middle East. to see what the problem is. I have discussed this matter with the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. and he has advised me that the conferees of the House will go to the Far East to study the problem and to look into the screening used. and that upon their return they will implement their findings into a measure which will permit some of the refugees to come into the United States. Mr. President. I will vote for this joint resolution because it contains some good features. as it will allow some refugees and some orphans from Europe to enter the United States and because when I meet a man from the Far East or when I meet a man from the Middle East. I can look him in the eye and can say to him that this great deliberative body. the Senate of the United States. has in its wisdom and in its great humanitarianism and in its sense of justice and fairplay adopted my amendment to this measure. I hope that at the next session we shall have a measure which will do justice and will provide fairness to the people of the Far East.