Forget about democracy. Arm." And the militarists came into power and led Japan into war against us as the only way they saw to repay the wholly needless and gratuitous insult. The most powerful weapon the Communists have used against us in making such headway among Asiatics as they have made by nonmilitary means has been this which is today the single greatest weakness in our armor: racial discrimination. Mr. Chairman. regardless of the difficulties that we have in solving this problem on the home front. I believe there is no excuse for continuing in our immigration laws a provision which is worth divisions of troops to the enemy. If we cannot succeed yet in providing positive justice to all those of nonCaucasion races here in America. we can at least remove at one stroke this negative injustice to hundreds of millions in Asia whose attitudes in the future can be of life and death importance to ourselves. especially to Americans fighting in Asia. Let the United States Senate act upon H. R. 199. the bill passed by this House a year and a half ago to grant a minimum immigration quota to twelve or so countries in Asia still excluded. including Korea and Japan. so that no person is barred solely because of his race: Let the determining factor be the same for all peoples. namely. within the quota limitations. the qualifications the person has or has not as an individual. It would admit. if every single quota member were taken up by an oriental. only about 1.200 a year. that is. it would cost us nothing. it could save us tens of thousands of lives before we get through. Someone has just said we must forget about everything except winning the war.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatics are portrayed as easily influenced by Communists due to racial discrimination.