The newly-formed Joint Council on the Resettlement of Displaced Persons announced today that it plans to conduct a nation-wide survey on resettlement opportunities for 100,000 displaced persons now in Europe who are expected to enter the United States when Congress passes the Stratton Bill or an equivalent immigration measure.
The Council, whose formation was announced yesterday, is composed of representative organizations of the three major faiths. These are the Church World Service (Protestant), the National Catholic Resettlement Council and the United Service for New Americans.
Joseph E. Beck, executive director of the U.S.N.A., and Dr. C.E. Krumbholz and Edward M. O’Connor, of the C.W.S. and the N.C.R.C., respectively, told a press conference that of the 100,000 DP’s expected to be admitted to the United States the first year, only 40,000 would be employable males, while the rest would be wives and children.
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