As a matter of fact. during the closing days of the Eightieth Congress the House of Representatives from the Unanimous Consent Calendar approved one of the more important provisions of this bill. namely. that section which makes eligible for citizenship the parents of men who were killed or wounded while serving in the armed forces. So I shall not direct my brief remarks to that part of the bill because I am assuming that if it was passed once. when it was on the Unanimous Consent Calendar. there cannot be very much objection to the same proposal now. I shall briefly discuss the second phase of the bill. which makes eligible for immigration and naturalization those people who have heretofore been ineligible for admission to the UnitedStates. I do that for the reason that perhaps we do not realize the importance that is placed on our acts here in. the House of Representatives by foreign governments. Just a few weeks ago when the Committee on the Judiciary by unanimous vote reported this bill. there appeared in a Japanese newspaper a very significant article commenting on the action. and I shall read it at this point:. Japanese sources said the United States House Judiciary Committees approval of the Judd bill. revising the Oriental Exclusion Act. is winning friends here for America at the time when the United States and Soviet Russia are engaged in a cold war to win support of Japan and other oriental nations. I think. if for no other reason. the good will that will be brought about through the enactment of this legislation should cause this body to vote as unanimously as possible for its enactment. that this action will prove conclusively that when we in America talk democracy we actually mean it. and that it is our purpose to eliminate whatever stigma has heretofore been placed on any other peoples of the world. This bill is fair.
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