Careful screening of displaced persons entering the United States under the Displaced Persons Act was urged today by several major Jewish organizations, it was announced here by the National Community Relations Advisory Council.
Citing testimony of UNSRA, I.R.O., and other officials, the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Jewish War Veterans, and the N.C.R.A.C. declared in a statement that there are many former Nazi collaborators and other persons of Nazi sympathies in the displaced persons camps.The statement added “that American public opinion generally will demand screening techniques to bar Nazis, their collaborators and all others contaminated with racism and totalitarianism as rigorous as those now properly being used to bar Communists.”
Meanwhile, Senators H. Alexander Smith, N.J., Leverett Saltonstall, Mass., Homer Ferguson, Mich., and Wayne Morse, Oregon, joined yesterday in sponsoring three “liberalizing” amendments to the DP Act of 1948. The three proposed amendments pro-vide for changing the disputed cut-off date in the present law, repeal of special priorities for Baits and the removal of the “mortgaging quotas.”
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