I have no hesitation in indicating the course which I think we should pursue. We should defeat this bill and every measure of a similar character which comes before us. We should advise the executive branch of the Government that we expect it to demand of the foreign nations which we have saved from destruction. that the least thing they could do is to take the displacedpersons problem off our hands. and. finally. we should consider a drastic reduction in the number of immigrants who are now permitted to enter under existing statutes. The claim that immigration has strengthened the United States in the past and would strengthen it now is refuted by the fact that the immigrants we secure now settle usually In the metropolitan centers. and that they will not help America because of their alien philosophies. and their biologic incompatibility with Americas parent stocks. Mr. President. recently I read a very learned discussion on immigration. The author. a very prominent American. traced radicalism. socialism. communism. our labor troubles. the subversive elements we have in the United States today to the Immigrants we took from eastern Europe. We are intensifying that very situation now. I have never in my life seen such a demonlstration as- that made by the thousands who came to Washington today to lobby against the MundtNixon bill.
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Immigrants from eastern Europe are associated with radicalism, socialism, communism, labor troubles, and subversive elements.