Leaders of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic organizations interested in furthering the immigration of DP’s into this country today urged that the United States “make a larger contribution towards the final solution of the displaced persons problem.”
In a letter to all Senators, the leaders said that it was “regrettable” that until now the Upper House has had no opportunity to consider amendments to liberalize the present DP immigration law. Urging support for a motion now pending in the Senate to take the bill out of the hands of committee where it has been pigeonholed, the letter says that “the United States, as the most powerful and economically secure nation of the world, must continue and enlarge its program of participation in the solution of this problem through resettlement.”
The letter was signed by Irving Kane, chairman of the National Community Relations Advisory Council, on behalf of the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Vetarans, Union of American Hebrew Congregations and 27 local Jewish community councils; Dr. Walter Van Kirk, executive secretary of the Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; Clarence E. Krumbholz, executive secretary of the Lutheran Resettlement Service; and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward E. Swanstrom, chairman and executive director of the National Catholic Resettlement Council.
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