Speech #630379371

Between the word "persecution." on line 12. page 9. and the semicolon following it I propose to insert the following: Or for five years after the passage of this act. because of the military conquest of their country. Cases are imaginable where a country without any act of Its own has been dragged into war. invaded and overrun. its cities destroyed. its industries ruined. itself depopulated. its people fugitives. and where a man must either remain away or go back and take an oath of allegiance to a foreign power which has overrun the country without any cause of war. merely for military or strategical purposes. I think if there be such cases. and such cases are easily imaginable. the door of the United States ought to be thrown wide open to those persons. regardless of the literacy test. So I shall offer that amendment.- I ask the Secretary to take it down. Between the word " persecution" and the semicolon. line 12. page 9. insert " or for five years after the passage of this act. because of the military conquest of their country." t