Memorandum from President Harry S. Truman to the Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Attorney General, and Others, with Attachments
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Deceaber 22, 1945
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Secretary of State
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Secretary of
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TRUMAN
Attomay gencral
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Revin NATIONAL
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ARCHIVES AND
Nar Shipping Administrator
RECORDS
SERVICE
Surgoon of the Public Hoalth Service
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Director General of UNIERA
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The grave dialocation of populations in nurope resulting
from the var has produced hanan auffering that the peoplo of the
United States ennnot and will not Agnore. Thio should
talce evary possible reasuro to facilitate full immigration to the
United States under axisting quota
The war has most secioualy disrupted our normal facilities
for handling mattera in many parta of the world. At the
annoe time, the derands upon those facilities have increased
It is, thereforo, necossary that insigration under the quotas be
auned initially in the aroas of groatost noed. T, therefore, direct
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Attorney Omeral,
the Surgeon Omeral of the Public Honlth Service, the Var Shipping
Administrator, and other appropriate officials to talce the following
action:
The Secretary of Stato is directed to establish vith the ut-
nost despatch consular facilities at ar near displaced person and refugee
acsombly center azeas in the Ameriom sonea of occupation. It shall be
the respossibility of these consular offloors, in conjunction with the
Inspectors, to deternino ao quicidly as possible the eligibility
of the applicate for viasa and adulssion to the United States. 7or this
purpose tha Segrotary will, if divert the personnel and funda
of his Departants from other functions in order to insure the most
peditious handling of this operution. In cooporation with the Attomey
General, he shall appoint as terporary vice-consuls, authorised to 1ssue
visas, such officero of the Immigration and Inturalisation Service ao
can be sade available for this programe wathin the limits of adminie-
tantive discration, the afícero of the Department of State assigned to
this progrum aball nake every offort to simplify and to hasten the parocess
of issuing visalle If necessary, blocs of visa numbers may be assigned
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