Hugo E. Rogers, vice-president of HIAS and Borough President of Manhattan, who returned yesterday from a three-week survey of the DP situation in Europe, said today he would submit a report on his findings to President Truman.
Charging that the resettlement of DP’s is being delayed by America’s “antiquated quota system,” Rogers asserted that “less than ten percent of total immigration since V-E Day was available for DP’s. Only 23,584 alien immigrants,” he continued, emigrated from Germany between May, 1946 and January 31, 1947.
Pointing out that under the present quota system, 27,000 visas a year are allotted to nationals of Germany, but only 6,500 to Polish nationals, and still fewer to nationals of other countries, Rogers said “there can be only one solution–we must allot the unused quotas of recent years to fettle the problem.”
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