Hearings on the Stratton Bill, providing for the admission into the United States of 100,000 displaced persons a year for a period of four years, will open before the House Sub-Committee on Immigration on Wednesday.
The chances of the bill being approved by the House this session are good, but the prospects for favorable action by the Senate were described here today as uncertain” in view of the attitude of Sen. Chapman Revercomb, chairman of the Senate Immigration Sub-Committee.
Declaring that he had no prejudice against displaced persons and that their slight “deserves consideration,” Sen. Revercomb today insisted that before any pending immigration bills are considered by his committee, a survey of the entire immigration picture should be made. He said that he does not know how long it would take to complete such a survey, but pointed out that he wants to know, among other things, what sort of jobs the immigrants will be able to fill and whether it will be necessary to advocate selective immigration rather than the admission of “anybody.”
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