There are in the McCarran bill some good things which I support. but which are included. I believe. in a more straightforward and effective way in the HumphreyLehman bill. Let us not. in our eagerness to do these good things and to recodify our immigration law. give our stamp of approval to a huge mass of other provisions which would bring us to grief and would sound throughout the world the word that what we profess. we do not practice. that in extending the hand of friendship and the call to unity to the free nations and peoples of the world. we want the colored races of the world to know that we consider them fine as cannon fodder. but only scarcely beyond the pale insofar as immigration is concerned. Mr. President. this is too delicate a matter to be dealt with hastily.
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Colored races are considered only good as cannon fodder and not worthy of immigration.