He thought we ought to bring them over. He went over to Europe himself. and made a study of the problem. He came back. and he wrote the President a letter. and in his letter to me he quotes from his letter to the President. "In my letter to the President I said: "(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 and 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 Hitler 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.-" that is with reference to the Lithuanians that I was talking about"(5) That many of these people live in elaborate quarters at American expense with German people as maids and attendants. while anxiously awaiting the date 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 possession. "(7) That many of these people are avowed Communists and Nazi adherents. and are daily being detected by the authorities. "(8) That many of these people swarm on the streets like vultures to take advantage of the weak and hungry for their own personal gain. "(9) That many of these persons lack the moral fiber to adapt themselves to democratic ways of life. "(10) That if America shall take into our country these people without a thorough process of screening. breakdown and culling out. we at home will suffer. not for a while. but always. from such a national mistake." Mr. Chairman. with your permission. I will place that in the record.
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Lithuanians are described as non-talented, lazy, worthless, attracted to Hitler policies, betraying their own countries, engaging in black markets, avowed Communists and Nazi adherents, and lacking moral fiber.