Mr. President. that is the way It appeals to me. and yet it must be realized by anyone who has given any thought to the subject at all that the matter of names has been largely resorted to in determining the quotas under the nationalorigins basis. But. comparable to that strange method which is taken to build up what we want to call a fair and accurate basis of immigration quotas. is the fact that there has also been taken into consideration in the building up of quotas the record of arrivals of immigrants in our colonial days. and those arrivals are not recorded in such a way as to indicate that so many of them who came in a certain ship were from Norway and so many from Great Britain and so many from Germany. but. instead. when a ship came to America bearing immigrants to this country. if it bore. we will say. 500 immigrants and they came in a ship flying the British colors. the records disclose those 500 immigrants to have had their origin in Great Britain. On the other hand. if the ship was flying the German flag. it did not matter what was the nationality of the immigrants on that ship when it landed so far as the records were concerned. for they were all recorded as having been from Germany. While that practice was followed as well in the case of one country as of another. it must also be borne in mind that the great preponderance of shipping was under the British flag. and it must be borne In mind also that there were very few by comparison of the whole number who came Into this country in those days under a flag other than the British flag. Mr.
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