Defeat of this bill.will defeat efforts to better relations with India. When the Rules Committee gave its favorable report on my bill. same was received with enthusiasm in the Indian press. Contrariwise when word went forth that the bill might be defeated in the Immigration Committee. there was deep disappointment bordering upon resentment. and items appeared saying the United States still considered India and Indians inferior. The effect was very bad. Commentators began to. question. our good faith as to the Atlantic Charter and the "four freedoms." Particularly. businessmen and industrialists expressed keen regret and doubted placing postwar orders with us. .
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