St. Louis Post-Dispatch..... Our Darkened Lamp..

Mitchell (S. Dak.) Republic. Major Organizations Would Ad- Apr. 14, 1947

Illinois:

4. Chicago..

5. Chicago...

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune.

8. Boston

District of Columbia: 2. Washington.

Iowa:

3. Bloomington... Bloomington (Ill.) Pentagraph. Niebuhr Thinks We Should

Chicago Sun, Washington
Bureau.
Chicago Sun..

6. Cedar Rapids... Cedar Rapids Tribune..

Minnesota:

7. Minneapolis.

Massachusetts:

Boston Sunday Post.

Boost Immigration Rate, by
Reinhold Niebuhr.
United States Nearing Show-
down on World Refugee Issue.
'Inside Washington'- Refugee
Problem.

Human Challenger, by Barnet
Nover.

May 20, 1947

Feb. 23, 1947

Mar. 16, 1947

Mar. 22, 1947

We Owe it to Our Ideals to Solve
Europe's Problem of the Dis-
placed Persons, by John
Griffin.

The So-Called Refugee Problem, Oct. 24, 1946
by Edgar Mowrer on World
Affairs.

These Days, by George Sokol-
sky-Displaced Persons.
Capitol Circus, by Paul Healy..
Abroad-The People Who Live
Between Two Closed Doors,
by Anne O'Hare McCormick.
Under the Hat, by F. H. La-
Guardia.

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Things More Americans Should
Know (About America), by
Walter Winchell.

New York World-Telegram... At Our Gates, by Eleanor

New York Times.

New York Daily Mirror.
New York Post.

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Roosevelt.
Broadway Beat, by Danton
Walker.

On the Line, by Bob Considine.
Let DP's Into the U. S. A.-A
World to Live In, by Dorothy
Norman.

What Do You Think?.

Jan. 21, 1947

Jan. 30, 1947
Feb. 1, 1947

Feb. 6, 1947

Feb. 13, 1947

Feb. 25, 1947

Mar. 5, 1947

Mar. 26, 1947

Nov. 7, 1946

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EXCERPTS FROM EDITORIALS FAVORING ADMISSION OF DISPLACED PERSONS TO THE UNITED STATES

A specific means is now at hand for the United States to do its share in providing homes for the war victims who are still living in the displaced-persons camps of Europe.

Congressman-at-large William G. Stratton of Illinois has introduced H. R. 2910. It would set up a temporary emergency quota, without altering our immigration laws, to admit 400,000 displaced persons during the next 4 years.

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Despite all of our fine words, the United States has so far taken only a few of the displaced persons. Not only for humanitarian reasons, but to reduce the international relief problem, we have a duty to take more.

Quick passage of H. R. 2910 will speed up the arrival of these homeless people.— Beacon Journal, Akron, Ohio, April 16, 1947.

In any prewar thinking, the existence of 850,000 stateless refugees stranded in the heart of Europe would have posed a gigantic problem, arousing humanity to immediate action.

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In the name of humanity and in the light of the American duty of enlightened leadership, this country should move without further delay toward a solution of this problem, the continuance of which is bound to jeopardize our national security itself, and to aggravate a financial burden that already is heavy.

These people were the victims of the Nazis and now they fear the Communists. They are raw material for democracy-for new Americans. Opposition to this American responsibility, which should be freely undertaken in partnership with other United Nations members who are able to do so, can only spring from the ugly seeds of intolerance.-News, Indianapolis, Ind., April 16, 1947.

This country's tradition as an asylum for oppressed people should be upheld by early enactment of H. R. 2310 authorizing the admission of a fair share of displaced persons from detention camps in Germany, Austria, and Italy.

The United States should no longer delay in meeting a great humanitarian challenge. The time for expressions of sympathy and indefinite pledges of assistance is past. The time for action is now.-Blade, Toledo, Ohio, April 17, 1947. Under the provisions of legislation now pending in Congress the United States would admit 160,000 displaced persons annually for the next 4 years.

The bill in Congress does not suggest fundamental change in our immigration policy. It proposes to admit the quotas that were not used during the war,