I wish to ask a question about a matter which has troubled me very sorely. When the Filipinos were fighting nobly and bravely. and were dying by the scores of thousands under the United States flag on Bataan in 1942. we had passed a bill granting them the right to be naturalized. and abolishing race discrimination against them. What would those noble heroes have thought if they had known that in this year of 1952 we here in the Senate. the greatest deliberative body in the world. a body that should be an example of democratic opinion. should be considering and debating for the first time new discriminations against them? I shudder to think what those people. and others like them in the Orient. must be thinking about our action in even considering such a bill as this.
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