Speech #800198632

Judge Joseph J. Moriarty. Here is what he said in a letter to the President: (1) That the other nations of the world have already picked and repicked this group. on the basis of character and talent. the musicians. men of science. professional and tradesmen were long ago in other countries. and what is left now consists principally of the nontalented class. (2) that these people are not refugees who reached the zone in flight from the pursuing persecutor. but principally people of all classes and types of character. caught in the shifting chances of a roving life. (3) that this group has among them many persons capable of adopting and living good and useful lives. but in the great majority are a collection of lazy. worthless persons. totally devoid of any notion to earn their way by honest industry or effort and resting from day to day on the assumption that the world owes them a living. (4) that many of these persons were people attracted to Germany by Hitlers policies and who took part in the Hitler economy against their own countries. and now are afraid to return to the people whom they betrayed. (5) that many of these people live in elaborate quarters at American expense with German people as maids and attendants while anxiously awaiting the day to enter into America to engage in profitmaking commercial manipulations. (6) that many of these people are in the black markets of Germany sucking the lifeblood out of the German economy and deliberately robbing the German people of whatever little means in their possessionAnd so forth. The gentleman from Texas . a distinguished colleague. whom we all know and whom we all respect. told me just today that he took the trouble on a trip to Europe last summer to find out what the Americans there familiar with the situation had to say. He asked over a hundred Americans about admitting DPs to this country. and only two said that DPs should be permitted to come in here under any circumstances. and one of them was Col.