XVI. PAKISTAN WHEAT ACT OF 1953

Text of Public Law 77, 83d Congress, 1st Session [S. 2112], 67 Stat. 80, approved June 25, 1953

All 67 Stat. 80. AN ACT To provide for the transfer of price-support wheat to Pakistan.

Pakistan.
Wheat.

Delivery.

Appropriation.

U. S.-Pakistan agreement.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized and directed to make available to the President out of wheat stocks acquired through price-support operations not to exceed one million long tons of wheat, during the period ending June 30, 1954, for transfer to the Government of Pakistan upon such terms and conditions as the President determines appropriate, of which seven hundred thousand tons may be made available in order to alleviate starvation and mass suffering threatened by famine conditions in Pakistan and not to exceed three hundred thousand tons to provide such reserve supply as he may determine to be a necessary supplement to such emergency assistance. Commodity Credit Corporation shall deliver the wheat on board vessels in United States ports as directed by the President. At least 50 per centum of the gross tonnage of wheat made available under this Act and transported from the United States on ocean vessels shall be so transported on United States flag vessels to the extent practicable and to the extent such vessels are available at market rates for United States flag vessels.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of making payments to the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities disposed of hereunder, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are equal to the Corporation's investment in such commodities, including handling costs, plus the costs incurred in making deliveries hereunder. Any funds or other assets available to the Commodity Credit Corporation may be used, in advance of such appropriation or payments, for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 3. No assistance under authority of this Act shall be made available until an agreement is entered into between Pakistan and the United States containing the following undertakings, and any others the President

may determine to be desirable to carry out the purposes of this Act, on the part of Pakistan:

(a) To distribute the supplies made available under this Act among the people of Pakistan without discrimination and to provide such supplies free of cost to persons who, by virtue of circumstances beyond their control, are unable to pay for them.

(b) To give full and continuous publicity in Pakistan to the assistance furnished by the people of the United States.

(c) To permit persons designated by the Government of the United States to observe without restriction the distribution in Pakistan of supplies made available under authority of this Act.

(d) To deposit in a special account amounts of the currency of Pakistan equivalent to the amounts of such currency accruing to the Government of Pakistan from the import and sale of commodities furnished as a grant hereunder, this account to be utilized as may be agreed upon by the United States and the Government of Pakistan for the benefit of the people of Pakistan in programs to increase food production and in other projects and programs in the mutual interest of the United States and Pakistan.

(e) To allocate to the use of the Government of the United States 5 per centum of the local currency account established in subsection (d) for use, in accordance with applicable United States laws, for local currency requirements of the United States, including administra- All 67 Stat. 81. tive and operating expenses in Pakistan in connection with assistance supplied by the United States.

(f) To pursue all appropriate measures to reduce its relief needs and to increase production and supply and improve distribution of foodstuffs within Pakistan so as to lessen the danger of similar emergencies in the future.

SEC. 4. All or any part of the assistance provided here- Termination. under shall be terminated by the President whenever he, or Congress by concurrent resolution, determines that because of changed conditions continuation of assistance is unnecessary or undesirable. Termination of assistance to Pakistan under this section may include the termination of deliveries of all supplies scheduled under this Act and not yet delivered.

SEC. 5. Nothing contained in this Act shall affect the applicability of section 1415 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 19531 or other provisions of law to the local currency allocated to the use of the United States in accordance with the agreement provided for in section 3.

1 See p. 138.

Foreign credits.

66 Stat. 662.

31 U. S. C. 724.

67 Stat. 400.

Refugee Relief
Act of 1953.

XVII. REFUGEE RELIEF ACT OF 1953

Text of Public Law 203, 83d Congress, 1st Session [H. R. 6481], 67 Stat. 400, approved August 7, 1953

AN ACT For the relief of certain refugees, and orphans, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Refugee Relief Act of 1953".

NOTE.-Funds for carrying out the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 were appropriated in chapter VII of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954 (see p. 139).

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 2. (a) "Refugee" means any person in a country or area which is neither Communist nor Communistdominated, who because of persecution, fear of persecution, natural calamity or military operations is out of his usual place of abode and unable to return thereto, who has not been firmly resettled, and who is in urgent need of assistance for the essentials of life or for transportation.

(b) "Escapee" means any refugee who, because of persecution or fear of persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion, fled from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or other Communist, Communistdominated or Communist-occupied area of Europe including those parts of Germany under military under__military occupation by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and who cannot return thereto because of fear of persecution on account of race, religion or political opinion.

(c) "German expellee" means any refugee of German ethnic origin residing in the area of the German Federal Republic, western sector of Berlin, or in Austria who was born in and was forcibly removed from or forced to flee from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Yugoslavia, or areas provisionally under the administration or control or domination of any such countries, except the Soviet zone of military occupation of Germany.

(d) "Administrator" means the administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs established in the Department of State pursuant to subsection (b) of section 104 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

SPECIAL NONQUOTA VISAS; NUMBERS

SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be issued two hundred five thousand special nonquota immigrant visas to aliens, specified in section 4 of this Act, seeking to enter the United States as immigrants and to their spouses and their unmarried sons or daughters under twenty-one years of age, including stepsons or stepdaughters and sons or daughters adopted prior to July 1, 1953, if accompanying them.

ALLOCATION OF SPECIAL NONQUOTA VISAS

SEC. 4. (a) Special nonquota immigrant visas authorized to be issued under section 3 of this Act shall be allotted as follows:

(1) Not to exceed fifty-five thousand visas to German expellees residing in the area of the German Federal Republic or in the western sectors of Berlin or in Austria: Provided, That the visas issued under this paragraph shall be issued only in the German Federal Republic or in the western sector of Berlin or in Austria.

(2) Not to exceed thirty-five thousand visas to escapees residing in the area of the German Federal Republic or the western sectors of Berlin or in Austria: Provided, That the visas issued under this paragraph shall be issued only in the German Federal Republic or in the western sector of Berlin or in Austria.

(3) Not to exceed ten thousand visas to escapees residing within the European continental limits of the member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or in Turkey, Sweden, Iran or in the Free Territory of Trieste and who are not nationals of the area in which they reside: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in the area or areas mentioned in this paragraph.

(4) Not to exceed two thousand visas to refugees who (a) during World War II were members of the armed forces of the Republic of Poland, (b) were honorably discharged from such forces, (c) reside on the date of the enactment of this Act in the British Isles, and (d) have not acquired British citizenship.

(5) Not to exceed forty-five thousand visas to refugees of Italian ethnic origin, residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in Italy or in the Free Territory of Trieste: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in the area or areas mentioned in this paragraph.

(6) Not to exceed fifteen thousand visas to persons of Italian ethnic origin, residing on the date of the enact

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ment of this Act in Italy or in the Free Territory of Trieste, who qualify under any of the preferences specified in paragraph (2), (3) or (4) of section 203 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in Italy or in the Free Territory of Trieste.

(7) Not to exceed fifteen thousand visas to refugees of Greek ethnic origin residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in Greece: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in Greece.

(8) Not to exceed two thousand visas to persons of Greek ethnic origin, residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in Greece, who qualify under any of the preferences specified in paragraph (2), (3) or (4) of section 203 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in Greece.

(9) Not to exceed fifteen thousand visas to refugees of Dutch ethnic origin residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in continental Netherlands: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in continental Netherlands.

(10) Not to exceed two thousand visas to persons of Dutch ethnic origin, residing on the date of the enactment of this Act in continental Netherlands, who qualify under any of the preferences specified in paragraph (2), (3) or (4) of section 203 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in continental Netherlands.

(11) Not to exceed two thousand visas to refugees, residing within the district of an American consular office in the Far East: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in said consular office district and only to refugees who are not indigenous to the area described in this paragraph.

(12) Not to exceed three thousand visas to refugees, residing within the district of an American consular office in the Far East: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in said consular office district and only to refugees who are indigenous to the area described in this paragraph.

(13) Not to exceed two thousand visas to refugees of Chinese ethnic origin whose passports for travel to the United States are endorsed by the Chinese National Government or its authorized representatives.

(14) Not to exceed two thousand visas to refugees who on the date of the enactment of this Act are eligible to receive assistance from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East: Provided, That such visas shall be issued only in the area described in this paragraph.

(b) The allotments provided in subsection (a) of this section shall be available for the issuance of immigrant visas to the spouses and unmarried sons or daughters