Session #78 · 1943–45

Speech #780122604

Fourth. The argument advanced by selfish financial interests that the repeal of this legislation is necessary to .assure preferential treatment for American business is controverted by the intense propaganda now being circulated for a postwar world in which no such preferences shall be granted. On the basis of the facts set forth above. it is obvious that no good purpose will be served by the passage of the bill to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Such a course will inevitably lead to demands that the whole struqture of legislation providing for exclusion of all Asiatics be abolished. As has already been said. the way to end once and for all the charge of discrimination against any race or people. is to exclude immigration from every source. The way to prove our friendship for China is to provide adequate military support to our military and naval 6fficers now leading our armies and fleets in a supreme effort to defeat Japan. Mr.
Keywords matched
Asiatics Chinese Exclusion immigration

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Chinese
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT REYNOLDS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NC
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
780122604
Paragraph
#8
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