The joint resolution (. J. Res. 238). as it passed the House of Representatives. provided for the elimination from our naturalization laws of the racial barriers to naturalization. The bill was subsequently passed by the Senate with an amendment in the nature of a substitute which limited the operative effect of the bill to 9ersons of the Japanese race. The effect of the Senate version of the bill would be to retain the racial barrier to naturalization against persons of certain other races. It was the judgment of the conference that we should follow the version of the bill as it initially passed the House of Representatives. namely. to eliminate all racial barriers to naturalization but that in so doing we should incorporate in the bill certain procedural safeguards in order to assure. so far as possible. that disloyal persons would not be admitted to citizenship. Accordingly. the bill. as amended by the conference. provides for a more thorough screening of applicants to citizenship and precludes from citizenship Communists and other subversives. I ask unanimous consent that a statement of the managers on the part of the Senate at the conference be printed at this point in the RECORD.
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