Speech #780069605

There is a limit to what human souls and human bodies can stand. We need to take this .weapon away from Japan. not to help China. but to help the United States. I sincerely hope that my colleagues on the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization who are opposed to this bill will review their position. I am not here to say that Iwant to stand on our position of the last 60 years. I am not here to say that Germans and Italians should be able to continue to come to this country. I know what some ofthem did who came here after the last war. Under our present quota system a quota can be had for Mussolini to come to this countryMussolini. who ravished Ethiopia. That is our historical immigration policy. A quota can be had for Hitler. I am not for that. I am for restricting our immigration. If we cut the quotas down 90 percent. let the Chinese take their cut. But let us not bar them and let others come into our country. Every witness who spoke for this bill who has visited China and who has an understanding of the problem has repeatedly Stated that the Chinese understand and grant t the United States the right to stop all immigration if we do it for domestic reasons. because of our unemployment. for instance. If we restrict all immigration in order to provide employment for our own people. and shut the doors. the Chinese will not object. but they do object to our letting 153.000 other people come into this country every year and not one Chinese. This issue is too closely tied to the war. It gives Japan too much of a weapon.