Mr. President. whir we should single out a particular class of people. a particular nationality or race in this theater of destruction in Eur6pe. This amendment proceeds upon the theoryand there can only be one theory In the mind of the author of the amendmentthat we are letting down what has been insisted upon here as a test of immigration. the illiteracy test. we are letting it down as a favor. out of sympathy to those who are unusually distressed under war conditions. So far as the Belgian is concerned. by the literacy test thbse who are qualified can come in under the present terms of the law. but this takes down the bar of illiteracy as to the Belgians upon the ground that those people have become the subjects of our sympathy and of the asylum principle of our immigration laws. I understand. Mr.
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