A House Judiciary subcommittee has tentatively agreed on a compromise amendment to the Displaced Persons Act which would permit 500,000 DP’s to enter the United States and which would also grant the President the night to admit an additional 100,000 refugee immigrants, it was reported here over the week-end.
Sources close to the subcommittee voiced the belief that the compromise proposal would be acceptable to the Administration which earlier had asked for authority to admit 400,000 displaced persons to the U.S. and for extension of the present DP immigration law from two to four years.
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