PERSONS INTO THE UNITED STATES

HEARINGS

BEFORE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTIETH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H. R. 2910

A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE UNITED STATES DURING AN
EMERGENCY PERIOD TO UNDERTAKE ITS FAIR SHARE IN
THE RESETTLEMENT OF DISPLACED PERSONS IN GERMANY,
AUSTRIA, AND ITALY, INCLUDING RELATIVES OF CITIZENS
OR MEMBERS OF OUR ARMED FORCES, BY PERMITTING THEIR
ADMISSION INTO THE UNITED STATES IN A NUMBER EQUIV-
ALENT TO A PART OF THE TOTAL QUOTA NUMBERS UNUSED
DURING THE WAR YEARS

65536

JUNE 4, 6, 13, 20, 25, 27, AND JULY 2, 9, 16, 18, 1947

Serial No. 11

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1947

Text of H. R. 2910.......

CONTENTS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1947

Testimony of Hon. William G. Stratton, Representative in Congress from

Illinois.

Additional and supporting documents introduced: Appendix I..

Testimony of—

FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1947

Hon. Noah M. Mason, Representative in Congress from Illinois..

John B. Trevor, president, American Coalition.

Hon. John H. Hilldring, Assistant Secretary of State----

118

Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert, general secretary, Federal Council of the

Churches of Christ in America

133

Testimony of-

Hon. Owen J. Roberts, Associate Justice, United States Supreme

Court (retired)-

139

Charles E. Babcock, chairman, national legislative committee, National

Council, Junior Order United American Mechanics_

148

William Green, president, American Federation of Labor.

Charles Rozmarek, president, Polish American Congress, Inc...
Bishop William T. Mulloy, president, National Catholic Rural Life
Conference.

160

170

190

Additional and supporting documents introduced:

Action of 1946 Convention of the American Federation of Labor on

admission of displaced persons under temporary law.

Report submitted by Ignatius Nurkiewicz, chairman, Committee on

Polish Displaced Persons, Polish American Congress, Inc.

Telegram from a group of American citizens serving with occupational

forces...

Statement submitted by the Honorable Eugene Worley, M. C., from

Texas...

Resolution of the Amarillo Council 1450, Knights of Columbus.-

Statement of Mr. O'Neal, of the American Farm Bureau Federation..

Statement by William C. Gausmann, Washington representative of

the Socialist Party.

Statement from the National Board of the Young Women's Christian

Associations..

164

180

196

197

197

198

199

200

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1947

Testimony of—

Hon. Ugo Carusi, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization

Service_

209

Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, adviser on Jewish affairs to General Clay,

commander in chief of the European command___

229

Additional and supporting documents introduced:

Report of the Acting Attorney General on H. R. 2910..
Letter from the Under Secretary of State...

221

228

Π

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1947

Testimony of—

Merwin K. Hart, president, National Economic Council..

Hon. Jacob K. Javits, Representative in Congress from New York..

Hon. John Lesinski, Representative in Congress from Michigan..

Hon. Glenn R. Davis, Representative in Congress from Wisconsin

Hon. Mitchell Jenkins, Representative in Congress from Pennsyl-

vania

George Washington Williams, president, Maryland Society, War of

1812..

Statements submitted:

Hon. Ellsworth B. Foote, Representative in Congress from Con-

necticut.

Hon. Ray J. Madden, Representative in Congress from Indiana__

Hon. Arthur G. Klein, Representative in Congress from New York..

Hon. Adolph J. Sabath, Representative in Congress from Illinois..

Additional and supporting documents introduced: A tabulation of the

estimated alien population in the United States, by countries, submitted

by Mr. Carusi, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service _ _

FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1947

Testimony of-

Page

245

264

268

274

281

283

295

301

301

305

307

John C. Williamson, Assistant Director, National Legislative Service,

Veterans of Foreign Wars..

312

Col. John Thomas Taylor, National Legislative Committee of the

American Legion...

320

Jeremiah J. Twomey, Chairman, Subcommittee on Immigration and

Naturalization, National Americanism Commission, American

Legion

James F. Green, Chairman, National Americanization Commission,

the American Legion..

Hon. Guy M. Gillette, former United States Senator, State of Iowa..

Additional and supporting documents introduced:
Statements from-

Presbytery of Beaver, Beaver County, Pa..
Butler Council of Protestant Churches.

State Council of the Pennsylvania Junior Order of United Ameri-
can Mechanics

321

328

335

310

309

310

National Council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics..

The Beaver Falls Ministerial Association of Beaver Falls, Pa..

American Legion, Franklin D. Roosevelt Post, Department of

Kentucky.

Hon. Herbert H. Lehman, National Community Relations Advisory

Council and constituent organizations..

381

Marvin Klemme, former official, United Nations Relief and Rehabili-

tation Administration...

389

Additional and supporting documents introduced:

Resolution from the Jewish Community Council of Washington
Heights and Inwood.

353

Resolution from the Knights of Columbus, Woodlawn Council, No.
2161, of Aliquippa, Pa

354

Statement by Marvin Klemme, former UNRRA official.

396

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1947

Testimony of-

Hon. Philip Hannah, Assistant Secretary of Labor.

Page

445

Msgr. John O'Grady, war relief services, National Catholic Welfare

Conference.

477

Edward T. McCaffrey, chairman, national executive committee,
Catholic War Veterans..

492

Additional and supporting documents submitted:

Telegram from Walter Boak, chairman of the Jahielly Society, New

Castle, Pa.__.

401

Telegram from Walter Maslyk, president of the Polish Falcons, New

Castle, Pa...

402

Speech made by Hon. Ed Gossett on the floor of the House of Rep-

resentatives.

Letter from the New York yearly meeting of the Religious Society

of Friends, signed by Ruth E. Craig, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y...

Letter from D. A. Lehman, commander of Post No. 147, Jewish

War Veterans, Beaver County, Pa..

402

402

402

Remarks by Senator Revercomb made in the Senate of the United

States on March 25, 1947.

409

The President's message on the displaced persons...

441

Article by Josephine Ripley appearing in the Christian Science

Monitor of June 4, 1947..

473

Article from the Washington Sunday Star of June 29, Australia Seeks

Citizens...

474

Statement of Milton H. Richman, national commander of the Jewish

Veterans of the United States of America...

496

Statement of P. J. Zuris, president of the American Friends of Lithu-

ania___

Petition signed by 450 members of the Junior Order of United Amer-

ican Mechanics..

531

Statement of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing,

Inc..

532

Letter by Director General Lowell W. Rooks, United Nations Relief

and Rehabilitation Administration_.

532

Statement by Hon. W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce.

Resolution of the Legislative Department of Chelsea, Mass.

Statement of William F. Laukaitis, supreme president, Lithuanian

Alliance of America__

533

535

535

Statement of the Russian Bible Society, Inc.

537

Article from the American Perspective, of June 1947.

559

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1947

Testimony of—

Hon. Tom C. Clark, the Attorney General.

Goldthwaite H. Dorr, consultant to the Secretary of State_

563

577

Additional and supporting documents introduced:

Statement giving a list of countries offering to take displaced persons..

Statement by Earl G. Harrison, chairman of the Citizens Committee

for Displaced Persons.

577

578

Statement by Mrs. J. L. Blair Buck, president of the General Federa-

tion of Women's Clubs..

Petition forwarded by Augustine B. Kelley, of Pennsylvania.

692

693