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Friday, July 1&. 1947
TI1E SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
rage
President Truman Appeals to Congress
For Admission of Displaced Persons
W A S H T NGTON — President
Truiua • ' "1y passage by
Congress t legislation to
enable a ‘su-s aniial number” of
displaced persons to enter the
United States as immigrants. He
did not specify either the Strat
ton Bill or the measure intro
duced recently in the Senate by
nine Senators providing for the
admission of an unspecified num
ber of displaced persons.
In a message to Congress em
phasizing "the urgency of this sub
ject.” the President reiterated the
• firm” policy of the United Stares
to resist any proposal to send , ■ ^ i l ikinrcikji*; i v
these people back to their former N CAMrj iNUtrsNI icLT
standards for all immigrants ’ In
cluding these displaced persons.”
Stating that the International
Refugee Organization will help to
resettle the DP’s, Mr. Truman ex
plained that it is "only a service
organization” unable to ."impose
its will on member countries. Con
tinuance of this organization and
our financial support of its work
will be required,’’ he warned, “as
long as the problem of these
homeless people remains un
solved.”
SAYS DISPLACE "^ONS
SHOULD NOT BE LEFT
AJC Officials Sail
For Europe to Aid
Community Work
NEW YORK (JTA >—Three rep
resentatives of the American Jew
ish Committee sailed for Europe
ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE'
Immigration Action
WASHINGTON tJTA). Senate
President Arthur H. Vandcnberg
of Michigan said this week that
Congressional action on displaced
persons during this session is “all i
but impossible.”
Following a discussion of the'
, . 'subject with President Truman by
this week to plan reconstructive Con J g ressiol ^ 1 lead ers. vandcnberg
aid for the Jews there through the told news men at the White House f
newly established Paris office of j that the President brought up the'
the AJC and to advise European ! subject of the urgency oi the DP,
Jewish communities tn matters ' P rob ^ m K '' It
. , . . ... ... .. . Vandcnberg said, "that this is a
pertaining to civil rights, cultural sitlIation w hteb requires construc-
reconstruction and combatting tire action by Congress, but it was
anti-Semitism. The three who also mutually recognized that
there are extreme legislative diflS-
youth who assassinated German
diplomat Ernst vom Rath. A po
lice announcement said five cases
found in the house where the live
were living contained live heavy
machine guns, many small arms.
41 hand grenades, and much am
munition.
The detained men are Moise Zi-
zak. Stanislas Mazner. Bernadette
Pointard and a man identified only
os Eisman. Fifteen other persons
also questioned folic wing the un
earthing ol the weapons have been
released.
homes by force, where it is evident
that their unwillingness to return
is based upon political considera
te nor fear of persecution.” Point
ing out that the problem is solely
an emergency one resulting from
the war. he said that “the only
civilized course is to enable these
people to fake new roots in friend
ly soil.” He cited the open door
policy of certain Western Euro
pean and L^t>n American coun
tries and stn ed it was 'he “plstn
duty” oi tills country to "join
with other notions in solving this
tragic prob’em.”
“We ourselves should admit a
substantial number of Immi
grants.” declared Mr. Truman.
"We have not yet been able to do
this because our present statu
tory quotas applicable to the East
ern areas from most of these peo
ple come are wholly inadequate
for this purpose. Special legisla
tion limited to this particular
emergency v ill therefore h» neces
sary if we are to share with other
nations in this enterprise of of
fering an opportunity for a new
life to this people.”
The President reassured Con
gress that ‘‘there is no proposal
for a general revision of our im
migration policy as now enunciat
ed in our immigration statutes.”
nor for waiving present prescribed
sailed are Dr. John Slawson, ex
ecutive vice-president. Dr. Joel D.
Wolfsohn, who will head Euro-
In strong terms the President
declared that “it is unthinkable. „ _
that they should be left mdefi- ; P^an opcrations of the AJC. and
nitely in camps In Europe.” He i P 1 ; e ** nue J H -.TtowaighP. —?-
dismissed the alternative of turn- c H r ?5*f >r .
ing them cut “in Germany into j
who persecuted them.” The rela
the community of the very people
lively small number who would
be admitted, he Insisted, could be
readily absorbed “in the light of
the vast numbers of people of all
c ountries that we
nssimiliated into
life.”
The President further pointed
’cut that most of the displaced per
sons "already have strong roots
in this country—by kinship, re
ligion, or national origin. Their
occupational background clearly
indicates that they can quickly
become useful members of our
American communities.” Their
kinsmen, he said, already in the
United States, have been vital fac
tors in developing American life.
Mr. Truman called on Congress
to decide the fate of the DP’s.
“They live in corroding uncer
tainty of their future.” he said.
“Let us Join in giving them a
chance at decent and self-support
ing lives. I urge the Congress to
nress forward with its considera
tion of this subject and to pass
suitable legislation as speedily as
possible.”
cullies making any conclusive ae
lion at the present session all but
impossible."
Congress’ own schedule, he ex
plained, is the dlfkicuity. Vanden-
berg further said that the subject
ment of Scientific Research. 1 will be discussed again by the
Dr. Slawson. in a statement is- President and leaders of Congress
sued before his departure, said: m a n attempt “to find a helpful
"Dr. Joel D. Wolfsohn is leaving procedure for the future.”
for Europe to inaugurate the j —, — , ■■■-
American Jewish Committee’s pro
Possessicn of Arms
gram of aid in helping to normal- : f j V c Extremists
Jewish community life on the .. . . , Bli
fiT Continent, in North Africa and I Held for Illegal
our naumiai thp MkkUe Fj>st j am m -rompany- 1
ing him in order to help assess the
nature and magnitude of our coin- J
mon task. In inaugurating its ex
panded program for aid to the
Jews of tlie old world in strength
ening their civic rights and their
community organizations. the
American Jewish Commit ee is
impelled by its realization that
civil rights and human welfare arc
one and indivisible and thitu
PARIS tJTA).—Five youths, al
legedly members of the Stern
Group, who were arrested recently
when arms were found in a house
in the cltv of Nan ter re. were
brought before a magistrate this
week-end who ordered them held
pending further investigation.
They will be defended bar De
Assistant Secretary of Labor Testifies
In Support of Bill to Admit 400,000 DP's
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Assist
ant Secretary of Labor Philip Han
nah, testifying before the House
Sub-Committee on Immigration in
favor of the Stratton Bill to ad
mit 400.000 BPs to the U. S
within the next four years, said
that “there is no factual basis for
the view that the immigration con
templated by this bill would ham
per or injure the economic well
being of our country.”
The entry of 400.000 persons
over a four-year period, the Labor
Department official said, will have
"no significant effect on the labor
market of the United States. The
number of workers in this group
annually would be but one-tenth
of one per cent of our total labor
force.”
He suggested that the bill con
tain a provision for the special
care and education of displaced
children who would be brought to
this country, “to compensate for
deprivations suffered during their
formative years and to help them
U. S. Students Will
Attend Hebrew Univ.
NEW YORK (JTA».—Thirteen
Americans this week sailed for
Palestine to attend the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
An additional 50 students are
scheduled to sail for Palestine
within the next two months. There
are now about 100 Americans en
rolled at the University, over one-
half of whom are studying under
the GJ. Bill of Rights.
STATE DEPARTMENT
MUM ON REPORT
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
State Department refused to com
ment on a report published in the
newspaper PM that King Ibn
Saud has strongly hinted to the
United States that he would not
oppose a “moderate solution of
the Palestine issue.
PM asserts that reliable sources
insist that the State Department
is aware that Ibn Saud Is not as
violently opposed to a reasonable
solution of the Palest ne problem
as he is represented to be. The
Saudi Arabian lego don labelled
the story *V ' / 1*''*.’’
tfo one is free rum suffering.—
Bereshith Rabbath.
become good citizens.” He cm
phasized the fact that the Strat
ton Bill “does not in any sense
constitute a reversal of our pres
ent immigration policy.”
Monsignor John O’Grady, repre
senting the War Relief Services of
the National Catholic Welfare
Services, said he thought that the
solution of the displaced persons
problem in Europe U’as equally as
important as economic reconstruc
tion and should be solved as part
of the whole program of European
rehabilitation.
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