The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a resolution to initiate an investigation into the condition of the Palestine Arab refugees. Despite the fact that the problem has been thoroughly investigated by the United Nations and other bodies, the Committee allocated $50,000 to the study.
An inquiry at the office of Sen. William Langer, chairman of the Committee, brought the information that the resolution had been drafted by Richard M. Arens, staff director of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, who is known as the principal architect of the discriminatory features of the McCarran immigration act.
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