Mr. Chairman and members of tile cominittee. I am offering this substitute amendment not for the purpose of bringing in additional immigrants to this country. I think that if we are to accept an amendment in behalf of aliens who are. subject to persecution orm prosecution because of their religious belief. we should have an amendment admitting people who. are i)ersecuted because of their political faith. I do not .know about the conditions in Russia or Serbia or other countries in what is known as the Near East. but I do. know that there is persecution in certain countries of Europe. and if political offenders had been barred from the United States in former days the forebears of a great number of the men present in this House would never have: reached America. and they would be in Europe today working as the prospective immigrant over there is now working. I believe we should act in justice and in. fairness to others as we would like to see justice and fairness done to us. During the World War we promised men of foreign birth who engaged in that war on our side that we would not discriminate against them or against their parents.
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