205,000 EUROPEANS TO BE ADMITTED TO AMERICA
(10 a.m.) "Washington, June 20. A bill to permit 205,000 displaced Europeans to enter the United States in the next two years was passed by the Senate yesterday.
Forty per cent, of those to be admitted must be citizens of the Baltic States which were absorbed by Russia and 30 per cent, must be farm workers. Only those Europeans who were in displaced persons’ camps before December 22 are eligible.
The bill was approved after a stormy debate in which Senator J. Howard McGrath, the national Democratic chairman, declared it was deliberately written to keep the Jews out of the United States and to discriminate against Catholics.
State Department officials estimated today that there are more than 800,000 refugees in displaced persons’ camps in Europe, of whom nearly 200,000 are .Tews,
Officials stated, however, that not more than 15,000 Jews could qualify for the December 22 1945 deadline-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22669, 21 June 1948, Page 5
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