Letter from Clark Ruffner to Richard Neustadt

CONFIDENTIAL OF INFORMATION and 4 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON 25, D. C. STATES OF the MAR 2 1 1952 MEMORANDUM FOR MR. R. E. NEUSTADT, SPECIAL ASSISTANT 1. Reference is made to your memorandum of 20 March 1952 on the subject of special programs of immigration and aid to refugees from communism and my memoranda of 5 March 1952 and 17 March 1952 on the same subject. The views of para. 2 of the latter memorandum are still applicable. 2. It is recommended that the last sentence of page 11 be amended to read as follows: "Our industry can readily absorb a limited number of certain skilled and trained personnel in the years immediately ahead." This amendment is recommended in order to assure the Congress that only certain, not all, skills are in short manpower supply in the United States. 3. It is not believed that the recommendation by the Depart- ment of State that the immigration proposals be confined to the use annually for five years of the approximately 60,000 unused quota numbers of each preceding year would greatly increase the possibility of the adoption of the proposals by the Congress. The Department of State proposal would, in 217 probability, cause the Congress to consider lowering the immigration quotas inasmuch as the present yearly immigration falls approximately 60,000 short each year. Furthermore, the 60,000 unused quota numbers do not necessarily consist of the nationalities desired under the proposed legislation. The Department of Defense concurs in the recommendation by the Department of State that the proposals for the training and educa- tion of refugees be deleted from the message. 5. The Department of Defense does not concur in the statement in the second paragraph of the discussion in the Department of State memorandum which states that "Authority for the reception, care, and movement of refugees out of Europe already exists in the Mutual Securi ty Act." $4.3 million of the $100 million authorized under Section 101(a)(1) of the Mutual Security Act has been allocated to assist in the care and reception of an existing group of refugees. This, however, is by special agreement for this particular instance and is not a continuing process. Section 101(a)(1) of the Mutual Security Act of 1951 is not an authorization for the reception, care, and movement of refugees out of Europe. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 Clark L. Rufferer DOD Directive 5100.30, June 18, 1979 CLARK L. RUFFNER By NLT-, He NARS, Date 11-25-20 Major General, U.S.Army Deputy Assistant to the Secretary SECUBITY or International Security Affairs C-507