The assurance that the next session of Congress will consider revising the present Displaced Persons Act–which was denounced by President Truman as anti-Semitic–was given by Senator Alexander Wiley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a communication to Ugo Carusi, head of the Displaced Persons Commission which will administer the program calling for the admission of 205,000 displaced persons to this country within the, next two years.
Meanwhile, President Truman today gave recess appointments to the three members of the DP commission–Ugo Carusi, Edward M. O’Connor and Harry Rosenfield. The President sent regular appointments for the three to the now recessed Special Session but the Republican leadership had banned consideration of any appointments during the session. The recess appointments will enables the commission to operate until January when they will become subject to approval by the regular session of the Senate.
In his letter to Carusi, Sen. Wiley wrote: “Beyond the shadow of a doubt this displaced persons question will be coming up in the Eighty-first Congress. By that time we will have had the experience of around one-half year of the operation of the law; whatever flaws may exist in it nay have shown up.Whatever groups, if any, are treated unfairly purely unintentionally under the law will become evident. I personally will support all changes which appear Justified in the law on the basis of objective facts.”
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