Typical of the misrepresentation are the portrayals of myself in various cartoons which show me brutalizing the war orphans. Of course. the fact Is that under our present displacedpersons law. every single orphan in the war displaced persons category is embraced on a nonquota basis. It is not merely coincidence that among those who are behind this drive to destroy our immigration barriers are persons who vigorously opposed our basic immigration act of 1924. which provided for numerical restrictionsat a time when the flow of immigrants into the United States was running over a million a year. Indeed. Representstivb EMANUEL CELLER. the sponsor of H. R. 4567. was in the forefront of the fight against the Immigration Act of 1924. and then as now. he apparently saw racial and religious prejudice in the act of 1924. for he said. and I quote him from page 1329. of the CONCnESSIONAL RECORD for the Sixtyeighth Congress. as follows: "It has occurred to many. other than myself. that barriers are thus lowered for Protestant Europe and set up against Catholic and Jewish Europe." Just one of the lobby groups. the socalled citizens committee on displaced persons has registered with the Clerk of the House of Representatives under the Lobby Act. contributions received in excess of $875.000 and expenditures of more than $874.000. during the last 2% years. Let it be clearly understood that this money has not been spent for the relief of displaced persons. but solely for the purpose of influencing this legislation. Of this amount more than $326.000 was paid to salaried employees and an amount in excess of $154.000 was paid to such employees as expenses.
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