Congressman Emanuel Celler, New York Democrat, issued a statement here yesterday charging that the testimony by Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs was an “endeavor to scotch” the Baldwin-Rogers resolution which provides for the establishment of a U. S. commission to aid the Jews in occupied Europe.
Rep. Celler claimed that the majority of the 580,000 persons whom Mr. Long cited as having been admitted to the United States in the last ten years were mainly quota immigrants. Few, he said, were refugee Jews. He charged that, contrary to Secretary Long’s testimony, the State Department “has turned its back on the time-honored principle of granting havens to refugees.”
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