D.C. DEAR MR. DUTTON: This has further reference to my letter of January 23. 1964. to the Secretary of State with reference to Proclamation Nos. 3569 and 3570. and your reply of February 17. 1964. but first I wish to thank you for your detailed report on the method used in determining the immigration quotas for Malaysia and Algeria. and the revised quota for Indonesia. The Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization has expressed some concern with respect to the State Departments rationalization of the method used in the determination of the new quota of 574 annually for Algeria. It Is the subcommittees view that the last sentence of section 202(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. as amended by section 9 of the act of September 26. 1961. was added for the sole purpose of assuring to all new political entities an immigration quota at least equal to the total of subquotas or quotas previously available for each of the component parts of such new entity. In other words. in amending section 202(e). Congress was concerned with the quota situation resulting from the combination of minimum quota areas or subquota areas and did not intend that the new provision contained in the last sentence of 202(e) should encompass revisions resulting from the transfer of allegiance of an integral portion of the population of a governIng country to that of a new political entity. It Is believed that section 202(e). prior to its amendment. adequately covered that situation. This understanding of the purpose of the last sentence of section 202(e) is supported by the following language contained in House Report No. 1086. 87th Congress. 1st session. which accompanied the amending legislation when it was reported by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on August 30. 1961: "Similarly. anticipating the forthcoming assumption of an independent status by the West Indies Federation. this section of the bill proposes to assure to this or similar new political entities an immigration quota equal to the total of subquotas or quotas now available for each of the component parts of such a new entity. "To cite an example. upon the merger of Syria and Egypt into the United Arab RepubChairman. In reply to that further inquiry the following letter was received from the then Assistant Secretary of State. the Honorable Frederick G. Dutton. which I read:
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