Support of legislation to make available to eligible refugees unused United States immigration quota visas up to a maximum of 10, 000 a year will be considered at a two-day meeting this week under the auspices of the White House.
President Eisenhower has invited 200 American leaders to attend the May 21-22 White House conference to develop a program for United States participation in World Refugee Year, a project which developed from a United Nations General Assembly resolution on December 5 last year.
The two goals of the World Refugee Year which begins June 1 and of the White House meeting are to awaken people everywhere to the needs of refugees in many countries and to mobilize all private and public resources to help the refugees.
Among the refugees for whom these goals are sought are the Arab refugees from Palestine, the Jewish refugees who fled from Egypt after the Suez campaign of 1956 and a substantial number who fled from Iron Curtain countries.
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