If we act now by ridding the existing law of its patently discriminatory features. features which operate against Jews. against Catholics. against in fact. all. but a small portion of the people who remain unsettled in Europe. we are in effect saying that we cannot really be counted on to face our full share of world responsibility. I do not believe we will fail to live up to the duty we see so clearly before us. I feel. too. that we must all give the fullest consideration to the efforts of the literally hundreds of voluntary organizations right here in America. which have tirelessly and unselfishly devoted themselves. in every way possible. td sponsor the homeless refugees of Europeto sponsor them in order that they may be given an opportunity to breathe the air of freedom in order that they may escape from the hopelessness and the dark future which lies ahead of them in the hostile and alien circumstances in which they now find themselves. It is impossible for me to believe that the Lutherans. and the Catholics. and the Jews. and the Quakersand. in fact. religious organizations of every shade of belief in this countryhave acted in bad faith in devoting their efforts to the solution of this problem. The people in these organizations here in America are not bent upon selling us out to atheistic communism. and they are not bent on underwriting the discrimination and intolerance that characterize the operation of a totalitarian state. be it a totalitarian state of the left or of the right.
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