The State Department has agreed to support legislation by Senators Irving M. Ives and Jacob K. Javits, both of New York, and Clifford P. Case of New Jersey designed to admit up to 5, 000 Egyptian Jewish refugees to the United States, the Senators said this week-end.
They announced receipt of a letter from Assistant Secretary of State Robert C. Hill calling their suggestion for such legislation “indeed a worthy one” and stating that the State Department “supports such a recommendation.” The Senators, all Republicans, will introduce a measure to expand the Hungarian refugee program to admit. 68,000 refugees from Communist-dominated lands annually and 5,000 refugees from non-Communist areas. This would give President Eisenhower the power to admit the Egyptian Jews.
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