The American Government was urged today by the Interim Committee of the American Jewish Conference to undertake an emergency five-point program to admit displaced Jews into this country.
The program urges the temporary waiver of the system of allocating fixed proportions of quota visas according to countries of origin; recapturing 125,000 permits unused this year and allocating them to European DP’s; similar allocation of all normally unused quotas for the next three years; granting quota priority to victims of racial and religious persecution; and improvement in the present inadequate visa service in Europe so that all persons admissible under the quota will receive the necessary clearance.
Since the overwhelming desire of the displaced Jews is to go to Palestine, said the committee resolution, immigration to the U.S. is not a definitive solution to the refugee problem. But it stressed that a reasonable American immigration policy would exert “significant moral pressure” against those governments which now prevent Jewish immigration into Palestine.
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