Government investigation has proved groundless the charges that refugees displace American workers, come here to go on relief or act as fifth columnists, according to a Washington dispatch by Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer, published in the New York World-Telegram.
“The task of relief organizations,” Stokes said, “is handicapped by politicians who shout that millions of foreigners are-coming into the United States or trying to; by whispering campaigns that refugees are taking the places of American workers; that they are coming here to go on relief; that fifth columnists are getting into the country in refugee guise.
“All such reports are proved groundless by careful investigation by relief agencies and by denials from officials of the State Department and the Justice Department’s Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.”
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