Speech #630387437

I quite agree that. like many other matters. It is a tempest in a teapot. We get far afield here. we raise false and imaginary issues. we have stirred up the country on the literacy test. but I do not believe that as yetone person In a hundred throughout thiscountry knows that we have taken from the literacy test the exemption which recognizes the asylum principle in our.immigration laws. But that does not alter the case. If we should extend now this favor to illiterate Belgians because illiterate Belgians have without their fault been placed in a terrible condition we should recognize that same principle as to all other nations during the continuance of the present European war. because of circumstances or conditions growing out of the war.