(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Five hundred and seventy-seven thousand, four hundred and fifty additional immigrants would have to be admitted to the United States under the Perlman and similar bills for the exemption of the wives, minor children, parents and husbands of both citizens and declarants. according to the estimate submitted by Coert Dubois, chief of the visa office of the State Department, who testified at the hearing before the House Immigration Committee yesterday.
Dubois based the foregoing figure on cabled estimates received from all consuls abroad, in compliance with a request made by Dubois since his last appearance before the committee a few weeks ago.
The figures submitted showed that aliens who would be entitled to immediate admission would number 350,000 in Italy, 60,000 in Czechoslovakia, 42,700 in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 33.000 in Poland, 20.000 in Jugoslavia. 15,000 in Hungary, 10,000 in Syria, 8,500 in Germany, 8,700 in Russia, 5,100 in Lithuania, 4,500 in Norway, 5.000 in Roumania, 2,000 in Portlugal. 1,200 in Austria, 200 in Belgium, 1,250 in Bulgaria. 200 in Denmark. 400 in Finland, 1,700 in Greece, 1,000 in Latvia. 600 in the Netherlands, 1,000 in Palestine. 2,500 in Spain, 900 in Sweden and 1.500 in Turkey.
This total of 577,450 does not represent all the aliens who could be admitted, as the survey by the consuls covered only the countries named.
The conclusion Secretary Kellogg based upon the estimates, that a waiver of the quota allowance as to relatives of resident aliens would admit more than half a million people beyond the limit fixed by the present law astonished the House Committee. and is likely to be used as an argument in opposition to the Wadsworth-Perlman bill. The measure will be given further consideration by the House Committee early next week.
Congressman Sabath took issue with Dubois on the figure for Czechoslovakia. asserting it was too high.
It was evident that restrictionists in the committee were surprised at the low figures for Poland. Russia and Lithuania.
Fifty per cent of St. Augustine’s (Fla.) quota of 86,000 for a joint campaign for the United Palestine Appeal and United Jewish Campaign was raised at a meeting Sunday right. Rabbi Arthur Ginzsler was elected chairman. A. S. Snyder. treasurer. The total sum raised will be divided equally between the two drives.
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