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Pearl Buck — Part 3
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A: Greve Injustice’ ae gan Line. ‘negpence the Chinese
© Jam writing: on: behalf of a ° re are not actually"being de,” oe
‘group ‘of Chinese in the United Potted to Holland but. merejy. Fe...
Os aes. States ‘who, moved “in. the’ custody of “the
“though relative, Steamship line. ‘They are to be.
Pinjustice. | Trey, either. they-guoreed.in, securing.
B have’ overstayed - 2dmission to some country. or the
the terms of . master of. the vessel no longer —
their. admission needs their sérvices and succeeds
nto.the United. in putting, them ashore In some. CLIFPING FROM THE
mStates but. who © he Se :
cannot return to. ur Staté Department” and N.Y. hy Posr
ee “mainland . China.- other agencies spend millions“of a
‘pecauise they would face physical - dollars and make strenuous ef EDU TIo7
persecution. Many of them have forts to scquaint people else- “en FINAL
“been in the United States over where with our democratic ideals. rare; 2 MAY 1959
“ten years, the Immigration Serv- “ppt ‘would hardly. seem compat-. cote tena
ice having withheld deportation ipie with these ideals to sanction - Pioo
to China on the ground that they ‘q); pseudo-deportation of these -———-57
.ecannot safely return. 7 Chinese. Theis remo peing an . BOO eee ge ———
7 .More than 500 of them, I under- “Gressment. of se NO one an ip: | mae oy NY BIVISTOW
stand, are now to be sent to Hol- . for which Americans wih of aiaiade
‘they entered the United States : 2 mien: , RE: PeARL RUCK
on Dutch ships.- Deportation is , SiMeC a
‘based on a section of the -McCar- - 62 -fo/ 3)
ren-Walter Immigration Act ‘
_which says that a person can be | BUFI LE 200
:deported to any country “willing
“to accept”; him. The procedure.
‘vfollowed on arrival, it seems, is
‘for the Chinese deportee to be
“placed immediately in detention.
‘He is held there at the expense
of the Holland-American Line un- |
“til the line can make arrange-
“ments to place him aboard one of
‘fits vessels. These Chinese have
‘never been in ‘Holand but mere-. 2 SANAGPAS
~ wv -
“Jy gshipped_on vessels of ‘Dutch
“yegistry. The situation is anal-
“ogous. to. a ‘Chinese seaman on
‘an American vessel which he de- ao .
‘gerts in another country. Would - : fos
the United States at the request ;
of that country agree to the de-- ~
portation of such a Chinese sea- | -,
man to the United States? Serv. | - ,
fee aboard an American vessel : .: . a
swould impose no obligation to re.
“geive him here as a deportes; |
“. The. whole arrangement. ap-
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