Speech #670005021

ir. Chairman. the purpose of this amendment is to exclude from the 3 per cent limitation the wives. fiancees. the parents. the sisters. and the brothers of exservice men. purticularly of our naturalized and alien exservice men. There is no class of exservice men more deserving of appreciation from this House than those men wh6 served shoulder to shoulder with nativebori Americans in the late war. It seems hardly necessary that I should come before the memibership of this House mid plead with you for a right which is almost inherent by the very act of their serving in- bur Army intime of war. These mnen were told by our President when they went out that they were fighting for liberty.. justice. and democracy. and now when their families waint to come to this country they are excluded unless they come in under the 3 per cent rule. They as s excluded from enjoying the privileges of liberty. justice. and democracy which their relativds fought for. Consider. if you will. the record of our alien and naturalized service men. Consider the makeup of the Seventyseventh New York Division. composed iargely of men of Italian and Jewish 6rigin. The record of those men is written in letters of blood upon the annals of that famous division.