The Displaced Persons Commission today condemned the DP Act of 1948 in a report to President Truman. The Commission complained that that Act is “overly complicated, unjust, unfair, and discriminatory.” The earliest possible enactment of the Celler Bill was urged. The Commission said that actual admissions as of October 31, 1949, were 100,493 and that an additional 5,082 persons were en route.
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