What possible justification can they have. when that is their claim. in demanding a quota of 51.000 persons. when their own claims would justify only twentyseven thousand and odd. providing every person of German blood who was born in Austria and Belgium and Russia and Holland and Luxemburg was counted in as a native of postwar Germany of 1924? When we test them by their own figures. we can readily see how closely the quota board has come to what they demand. Under the 1.890 basis. today 31 per cent of all the immigration into the United States comes from Germany. By their own figures they have never claimed over 17 per cent of the white population of continental United States. Senators and others talk about inaccuracy. Could anything be more inaccurate than to give Germany. who claims 17 per cent and probably has between 16 and 17 per cent. 31 per cent of the immigration into this land? The obvious unfairness of it. the obvious partiality. the indefensible partiality of it seems to me to be only too apparent. How could we ever maintain a system of restricted immigration open to attack as that is open to attack by anyone of any other nationality? I have no complaint to make of the Germans. We are at peace with them. The immigrant stock that we get from Germany is an admirable stock. I have no war to fight with Germany on this question. The people who have come to America from there have made lawabiding citizens on the whole.
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