For. is it not pessimistic to insist that we are no longer a land of opportunity. or to depreciate our acknowledged compassion for humanity. especially the child? When I read that editorial in the Asheville Times. which is owned by the same bunch. I sat down and wrote the editor and told him that I was against himon that issue.. that I was going to fight the Wagner bill which would admit 20.000 refugee children from Germany into this country. that I was going to fight it on the floor of the Senate until the !cows come home." I stated in that letter that I thought cur first duty was to take care of the millions of orphans and refugee children in this country before we undertook to care for the refugees and orphan children from other lands in the world. and I mean it. If the American people want the orphans of the world to come .here. then. let us be fair. let us bring in the millions from China. the 500.000 from Ethiopia. the 1.500.000 from Spain. the 5.000.000 from the Ukraine in Russia. and several hundred thousand or a million from Germany. Let us bring them all in.
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