I think that we should approach the problem of these West Indies colonies from a broader point of view than that from which the committee has seemed to have approached it up to this point. Suppose Jamaica was an independent country such as the Dominican Republic or Cuba. Her population would then. like all the other people of the Western Hemisphere. be free to emigrate within our hemisphere as nonquota immigrants and they would be free to come into this country or to the Virgin Islands or to any other Territory of the United States. So I think that the problem boils down to whether we are going to single out the citizens of Jamaica. the citizens of Martinique. or any other colonials of the West Indies and say to them. "You are going to be put on a different basis and a different footing than any other peoples in the Western Hemisphere." Now what we are trying to build is a sense of unity and cooperation in this hemisphere. These peoples in World War II were very helpful to us.
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