President. of course. it is complicated. and. being complicated. it is not easy to understand. I have given myself and my thought fairly to this matter. and I should like to understand it. Perhaps we may be convinced of just what it is. perhaps our minds may be cleared up during this debate. and we may be satisfied that national origins is quite the thing to accept as a basis for immigration quotas. but at this stage I think it will be a most unfortunate thing if this country of ours adopts this new plan at a time and at a stage when people are so uncertain. so discontented. and so thoroughly of the belief that national origins is a thing resorted to to the end that a few people may be discriminated against for reasons which I shall not here debate or even mention. Yet. In spite of this compli* cation. if we permit the nationalorigins clause to become effective. we are going to ask. we are going to expect. -and we are going to want people to understand and to have faith in the nationalorigins plan.
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