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Hule all - every comments DRAFT 3/3/52 MESSAGE To the Congress of the United States: I recomment that the Congress authorize a special program of aão to refugees from behind the Iron Curtain and that a limited number of these people be admitted to the United States. I recoumend further that admisal on to this country be authorized for a limited nunber of persons now living in the overpopulated areas of Western surope. The adaission of displaced persons under the Displaced Persona Art of 1948 1a approaching the termination date fixed by the Congress. The Congresa and the American people have every räght to be proad of the achievements sade under this farsighted hummitariar legislation. Under this law, almost 330,000 viotims of tyranny have been resettled in the United States. The major phase of the pro- gram was completed with the issuance of practically all of the 341,000 visas authorized to be insued by midnight, December 31, 1951. <<04 40 is and