Mr. President. I should like to. ask the Senator from Missouri if this amendment would. not exclude. political refugeesBelgians and Poles who. under extraordinary circumstances thatmight justify their leaving their own country temporarily. come here for employment. with the probable intention of returning when conditions change? If so. is there not a strain of inconsistency. at least. in the American people undertaking to fortify the Belgians against want and distress. at home and refusing them asylum under our flag when banishment forces them away and they are not permitted to labor in their own fields? Scores of Canadians come across the American border and work here during the day. returning- at night. extending the same privilege to our people and while this amendment proposed by. the Senator from Missouri has. much merit. its exact purport should be fully understood by the Senate.
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