There was not then any Yugoslavia. nor was there any Czechoslovakia. nor any Estonia. nor any Finland. Those who insist on a plan whose whole basis rests on a prewar census which has to be guessed at in order to apply it to postwar countries talk of inaccuracy. That is true also of two of the groups under the nationalorigins plan. affecting the children of foreign born. the descendants of those who arrived since colonial days. it is no more accurate than is the 1890 basis as to those two groups. it is no more and no less accurate in that respect. the two systems are on a par there. but as to the foreign born who are here today. the millions of residents in this country who were born abroad. it is more accurate than the other method. because it is in terms of postwar geography. So when it is said that the natiomilorigins scheme is all based on the 1790 census. please remember that only onefourth of the calculations of national origins goes back to colonial days. and therefore has to have resort to 1790. Mr.
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