President. during the past years the United States has had the opportunity to give objective evidence of one of its great ideals. Our country has been called the melting pot of the world. We have had a continual influx of immigrants adding new vigor and vitality to our way of life. As late as 1920. onehalf the people in the great State of Illinois were either first- or secondgeneration immigrants. At the conclusion of the war millions of Europeans were left homeless and without countries to which they might return. These unwanted and persecuted people appealed to our humanitarian impulses.
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