The Senate, which last night adopted the Wiley-Revercomb immigration bill to admit 200,000 DP’s to this country within two years together with a number of amendments which limit the possibility for the admission of large numbers of Jewish DP’s, was today engaged in selecting a number of members to meet with Congressmen in conference to bring it into line with the Fellows bill passed by a Congressional immigration sub-committee and expected to be adopted by the Lower House.
The Fellows bill, in its present form, differs from the Senate legislation in most respects except for the 200,000 figure. Basically, the Fellows bill provides for the entrance of displaced Jews in the same proportion to the total DP’s admitted as they hold to the total population of the DP camos.
As the bill was passed last night it gives first priorities to displaced orphans and men who bore arms for the Allies but refuse to return to their native lands, then DP’s who were in camps before the end of 1945. It also assigns half the available visas to Balts and admits Volksdeutsche into this country under the German and Austrian quotas.
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