President Truman asked Congress today to grant the Displaced Persona Commission a $5,200,000 appropriation for its work in bringing displaced persons to this country during the last half of this year and the first six months of 1950.
In his budget, delivered to Congress today, the President said: “It is my hope that the present Displaced Persons Act will be speedily stripped of its restrictive and discriminatory provisions In order that we may make a contribution to this program more worthy of our beet traditions.”
Senators J. Howard McGrath, Democrat of Rhode Island, and Matthew Neely, Democrat of West Virginia, today introduced a displaced persons bill which would completely overhaul the present law to eliminate its discriminatory and unworkable features and raise the number admissible to 400,000 in four years.
The McGrath-Neely Bill would change the present cut-off date, which discriminates against Jewish DP’s, from Dec, 22, 1945, to April 21, 1947, would eliminate the 40 percent priority for Balts and substitute a clause prohibiting discrimination “in favor of or against any DP on account of his race, religion or national origin,” and would erase the section of the law giving 30 percent of the visas to agriculturalists.
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