Citing an “undeniable urgency” caused by the outbreak of anti-Semitism in Eastern European, Rep. Emanuel Celler today introduced a bill in the House of Representatives which would admit 328, 000 Europeans to this country within three years.
Rep. Celler’s bill would admit 64,000 refugees in Western Germany and Austria, in addition to escapees from countries behind the Iron Curtain. The bill also provides for the admission of 100,000 immigrants from Italy and Trieste, which are suffering from excess populations; 100,000 German expellees, defined in the bill as “people of German tehnic origin” who were expelled from Eastern European countries at the end of the war; 22,000 Greeks and 22,000 from the Netherlands, both of which have population problems; 20,000 refugees “who have found temporary asylum” in North Atlantic Treaty countries. He said most of the persons in this group would come from France.
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