Session #82 · 1951–53

Speech #820213992

I could speak endlessly on this subject. It simply does not make sense to me that when we have available places for these people we slam our doors upon them and say to the Italians. for instance. "You are not good enough to come into our country. Those who are already in this country are good enough to bear their share in the economy and life of our Nation. but we do not want more than 5.800." We say that to German expellees. We are saying that to refugees from behind the iron curtain. from Poland. Hungary. and Rumania. Mr.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Also mentioned
Germans Poles Hungarians Romanians refugees
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
HERBERT LEHMAN
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NY
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
820213992
Paragraph
#0
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