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And then I turn to an allinteresting paragraph by the same author at page 211 of that volume. Before I read that paragraph. however. I want to point out that it is one of the high signs of the advocates of national origins that we are going to adopt this nationalorigins basis of immigration quotas because it brings us so fine an element. The very best that humanity has builded Is going to lie kepresented IL the bulk and In the main In this nationalorigins plan. according to these advocates. Mr. President. I say that under the plan nothing of the kind is being accomplished.. because many countries which sent us immigrants In the Colonial days sent them here and they were attributed as having come to us from Great Britain. I say that Great Britain has not contributed the best of our population. I say that Great Britain is not entitled to that very great preponderance of advantage which is given to her under the nationalorigins plan. and I say it because Madison Grant has this to offer in his volume: Denmark. Norway. and Sweden are purely Nordic and yearly contribute swarms of a splendid type of immigrants to America and are now. as they have been for thousands of years. the chief nursery and broodland of the master race. Mr. President. it has been demonstrated that a large part of these people from Denmark. Norway. and Sweden came into Britain. settled there in Britain. and then came on to America. and under national origins we are saying that the coming of those people. because they came directly from Great Britain. entitles Great Britain to this greater preponderance of immigrants under the nationalorigins clause. With these facts in mind. Mr. Presidentthe resort to names. the resort to the manifests of ships which carried immigrants to us in the earlier days. and the resort to that general belief that Britain was the early contributor to our population here in Americais it any wonder that people whose hearts in some degree trace back to those older countries. back to the Seandinavian countries. back to Germany. back to any of those countries. feel just a little bit hurt to think that under this nationalorigins plan they and their hind are going to be discriminated against. as they see it? Is it any wonder that they lack the confidence. the faith. and the belief in the accuracy and In the fairness of the nationalorigins basis which is professed by some advocates of the nationalorigins plan? It Is not at all surprising to me because. as I have said. any basis of immigration quotas to be appreciated and to enjoy the confidence of the people must be understandable. must be fair. must be reasonable. and must in a reasonable degree be accurate. Mr. President. the nationalorigins process--which I am sure Senators are going to have a chance in the next few days to better understandis so thoroughly complicated as to make it difficult even for the experts who have worked out the quotas under this theory to explain clearly just what it is all about.