President. the proponents of this measure have flooded the country with propaganda on an unprecedented scale. I venture to say that there is no Senator in this Chamber whose office has not been deluged with propaganda at the behest of the foreign blocs and the deluded humanitarians who have been the victims of the specious propaganda which minority blocs have disseminated. Full page advertisements costing thousands of dollars have been run in important newspapers. and I have seen them run day after day in the New York newspapers. some of them advertisements that cost $2.000 a pieceand wellmeaning people who know nothing of the background of the immigration problem fall for this sort of thing. whereas the millions of ordinary American citizens who do not want these foreigners admitted are unorganized and. individually. lack the money with which to reply to the attack. Mr. President. the lobby backing the displacedpersons bill is one of the most powerful lobbies in American history. Millions of dollars are being spent to fill the press and the radio of the Nation with canned editorials. syndicated columns. and sentimental appeals based on misleading information. Many of the best people in the country. including leading ministers. have fallen for this propaganda as a result of not having made a careful study of the immigration question. They are eager to play the role of the good Samaritan. They forget. as one of my colleagues in the House wisely put it. that the good Samaritan. though he dressed the wounds of the wounded man and carried him to an inn and paid for his lodging. did not take the stranger home with him. nor open up his household to the stranger and the strangers family for permanent abode.
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Foreigners are part of a powerful lobby trying to influence immigration policy.