U.S. from Eastern European Countries Refuse Repatriation, Official Report Says

Estimating the possibilities of repatriating Jewish refugees in Germany and Austria, a report of the Senate Judiciary Committee |the DP situation in Europe states that Jews form Poland, Hungary and Rumania re##se to return to their former countries of residence because of fear of anti-Semitism which, the report says, was intensified by the German occupation of Poland.

The document, submitted to the Senate together with a bill calling for the commission of l00,000 DP’s to this country within two years,-adds that the “situation with respect to anti-Semitism in Communist-dominated countries is said to have improved in the past six months.” It also declares that “the Russian Government is at reported to be anti-Semitic.”

Discussing the role of Jewish agencies in caring for Jewish DP’s, the report comments that “it cannot be categorically stated that the migration of Jews from return Europe into the American zones of occupation was planned and managed by the serious Jewish agencies operating in America and in Europe. Such agencies have actively aided the movements after they started and have contributed money and effort, arranging transportation, food and shelter for many thousands.”

In a statement analyzing the bill to admit the 100,000 DP’s, Congressman Samuel Celler, New York Democrat, attacked the legislation as “an emasculated” assure, “only being used as a gesture to answer criticism of inaction.” Criticizing the “whittling down” of the number to be admitted from the originally proposed ##0, 000, ?as contained in the Stratton Bill, Celler said that an “unhealthy percentage” DP’s would still remain in camps as a burden to American taxpayers. “When the careful United States so hems its humanitarianism with restrictions as to render it ##aningless,” Celler questioned, “then how will less-economically favored countries #epond# “