Heads of national organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish, interested in the liberalization of immigration regulations by the United States Government, today telegraphed President Johnson, asking him not to accept the resignation of Abba P. Schwartz, who tendered his resignation yesterday from his post as administrator of the State Department’s Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs.
After tendering his resignation, Mr. Schwartz said in Washington that he was quitting his post upon discovering that he was the principal victim of a State Department reorganization that would abolish his bureau. He is widely considered as one of the Administration’s most vigorous advocates of liberal immigration, travel and refugee policies and was the principal architect of the new immigration law adopted last year, wiping out the discriminatory “national origins” quota system.
Mr. Schwartz said that the “reorganization” plan, presumably linked to Government “economy, “had been in the works for “many, many months, ” but that he had known nothing about it until his return from a confidential mission abroad last weekend.
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