Chairman. a large part of this proposal has been approved by the House last year. pursuant to a message the President sent to the Congress on July 21. 1961. The House passed the bill. H.R. 8291. under which three programs of assistance to certain migrants and refugees were taken out of the Mutual Security Act of 1954. as amended. and proposed to be reenacted in accordance with the Presidents request. H.R. 8291 failed of enactment due to unresolved disagreement between the House and the other body. Two of the three programs of assistance apply to the activities conducted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. and to a related unilateral program. operated by the United States. under which certain refugees from behind the Iron Curtain are assisted in obtaining resettlement overseas or are integrated into the economies of the respective countries of first asylum. The activities authorized under both programs have been conducted in the last 10 years under continuous scrutiny of the Committee on the Judiciary. The third program. also previously authorized under the now repealed Mutual Security Act. relates to our participation in the Intergovernmental Committee for European MigrationICEMan organization erected at the initiative of the Congress in 1951. Our participation in ICEM is similarly surveyed by the Committee on the Judiciary. the members of which participate in the U.S. delegation to the semiannual sessions of the governing body of ICEM. It might be appropriate to point out at this time that ICEM has so far moved to new homes and to new employment upward of 1.150.000 European migrants who otherwise would not have been moved. As an illustration of what ICEM is doing in just one field. namely. the settlement of migrants in countries in need of development of their agriculture. I wish to include at this point of my remarks an article which appeared In the February 1962 issue of a publication of the International Catholic Migration Conference.
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