Speech #820200442

I could not say. There Is another provision I think It Is well to direct your attention to. and I am going to read from a portion of the report I filed with this bill: Under H. R. 5678. the theory of nativity as the determining factor in the granting of immigration visas is discarded when it comes to persons of oriental stock. I am addressing myself to what Is known as the AsiaPacific triangle provisions. The effect in Asia of such discrimination will have farreaching effect and will supply ammunition for Communist propaganda In that troubled area of the world. H. R. 6678 places a special stigma on oriental or partoriental ancestry. Although the proposed measure takes a most Important step forward by making all people. regardless of race. eligible for immigration. the very same provisions of the bill establish a racial discriminatory rule for admission by declaring that a person born in any European or other country. outside the AsiaPacific triangle. "who is attributable by as much as onehalf of his ancestry to a people or peOples indigenous to the AsiaPacific triangle." shall be chargeablenot to the quota of his country of birthbut to the quota of the country of such of his ancestors as were Asiatic. or. if no such quota exists. to the "AsiaPacific triangle" quota of 100. As was stated succinctly by one of the witnesses: "We are thus. in effect. announcing to the millions of inhabitants of that area that we are continuing arbitrarily to attach an onus to their national identity and that. as far as this country is concerned. they will never escape that onus no matter to what ends of the earth they may migrate." The proposed text would certainly be offensive to the countries of Asia to whom we attribute a contaminating ancestry. Tragic consequences are foreseeable. as a result of such legislation. in the development of our foreign policy vis-&-vis Asia.