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So inaccurate is it generally believed to be that the experts have had difficulty in explaining to the committees from time to time just why they were arriving at such different conclusions with every set of figures they submitted !as to. the number who would be admitted from each country under the nationalorigins plan. I liav6 previously quoted Commissioner Hull. Commissioner General of Immigration. and shown how dissatisfied and how lacking in confidence he is of the merit of the accomplishment that would be won under the nationalorigins clause. Mr. Hubbard. an assistant in the Immigration Service. has been equally emphatic in his opposition to It. stating in a recent address up in New York that a large basis for immigration quotas under the nationalorigins plan was that through the tracing of names. which we have debated here at some length this afternoon. And then. too. Mr. President. while all this is true. while we are in this uncertain mind. and for such good reasons as I have here recited. there are Americans today who point out and who repeat and repeat and repeat again that the only people who are opposed to the nationalorigins basis of immigration quotas are "hyphenated Americans." Mr. President. there are thousands upon thousands of Americans who never have been charged with having any sympathies or with entertaining any hyphen with relation to their Americanism who are today as firmly convinced that national origins is a mistake as any GermanAmerican or NorwegianAmerican or BritishAmerican might be. No. there is quite general belief in opposition to the nationalorigins theory. and it is not dictated by a prejudice toward one country or against another country.