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...relatives got Refugee Woloski as far as Cuba. But he could not get on the quota, could not get a visa as a student, could not get work. At a restaurant where refugees congregate in Havana's cobbled barrio judio (Jewish quarter), he met a smuggler's agent named Simowitz. The price...
...found no welcome in Cuba, where aliens (except for a few technicians) are not allowed to work, and naturalization takes five years. Unable to leave or support themselves, they wrote frantic letters to friends and relatives in the U.S., besieged the U.S. consul for a place on the quota (the best they can hope for is a five years' wait), entered into hundreds of deals for spurious visas and fake Cuban citizenship papers. They moved from one shoddy rooming house to another, ate black beans and rice at corner kiosks and fly-ridden restaurants, endlessly cadged and figured...
...commission recommended that D.P.s be required only to give the assurance given by quota immigrants: that they would not become public charges...
Voluntary enlistments and re-enlistments are currently coming in at the rate of 35,000 a month. If this flow keeps up, the Army will easily stay at its quota without issuing any draft calls, the CRIMSON learned...
...Army has already announced that it would draft no men in February and March. Secretary Kenneth C. Royall explained that recruits and re-enlistments have filled the quota...