Something like 60 percent of the people of my State of Connecticut had left Connecticut and gone west before the Civil War. As a young man in his thirties. my father. the eighth generation to be born in the State. left to teach at the University of Minnesota. Such people who went west have been replaced through the great emigration from Europe. until today perhaps twothirds of the population of my State consists of the various groups which have come in from Europe during the past centuryor a little morethe Irish. the Italians. the Czechs. the Germans. the Poles. the Slovaks. the CarpathoRussians. and many. many others. As a result of this melting pot within my own State there is great interest in the pending bill. I say to Senators who have not had an opporturity to get home during this debate that they will find in their States a greater interest in the pending bill on the part of various racial groups than they may now suspect.
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