In a three-way shift announced today at the White House, Ugo Carusi, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization of the Department of Justice, is being transferred to the State Department to handle the displaced persons problem as special aide to Assistant Secretary-designate Charles E. (##)ltzman.
Watson B. Miller succeeds Carusi as head of the Immigration Service, having (##)st resigned for this purpose as Federal Security Administrator. Miller will be replaced by Oscar R. Ewing, former vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee (##) New York lawyer.
Carusi’s most important work in the State Department will be to make a complete (##)rvey of all phases of the DP problem, including resettlement of DP’s and administration of President Truman’s immigration directive of December 22, 1945, White House (##)ess Secretary Charles G. Ross said. A study of the IRO will also be made by Carusi, (##) is expected to spend considerable time in Europe and South America in the near future.
In appointing Miller as the new Immigration Commissioner, President Truman (##)ote him that “the conscience of the nation has been moved by the tragic plight” of the displaced persons. “In recent conversations I have discussed with you and with other high officials,” continued the President, “the importance of critical problems relating to displaced persons which the country is facing.” He pointed out that the Federal Security Agency, which Miller headed, dealt with many problems “similar to those of displaced persons.”
The DP problem will be intensively studied by five Congressional committees. The Senate Sub-Committee on Immigration, headed by Senator Chapman Revercomb, will survey the DP question as part of a general study of immigration. The Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House will visit Germany and Austria and investigate DP conditions, among other things. The Senate Appropriations Committee is sending members abroad who will include DP areas in their investigations. A sub-committee of the House Committee on Foreign Aid, headed by Rep. Christian Herter, plans to visit DP camps in Germany and Austria; and a sub-committee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, headed by Rep. James G. Fulton, is leaving for Europe later this month to study the IRO and DP’s.
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