There have been such cases. Common sense insists that there should be provision for review of capricious. arbitrary action. I endorse wholeheartedly the provision of this bill which grants naturalization to the Japanese. The first bill which I filed when I came to the Congress was to grant such rights of naturalization to the Japanese because I very much wanted to end the wrong perpetrated by the alien exclusion laws. The Japanese people have waited too long for the rectification of the knownothing philosophy which subjected them to inferior status. but much as I desire the accom* plishment of that goal. the other provisions in the bill which I consider to be detrimental to the best interests of our Nation overbalance this eminently worthy section. Mr. Speaker. the district which I have the honor to represent draws its population from many parts of Europe and the Orient. We are cosmopolitan and proud of that fact. because we believe that we embody the essence of Americapeoples of every ethnic and economic group. of all races and creeds and religions. fused in freedom and working to achieve the great American ideal of equal justice under law. Our immigration laws should seek that same goal of equal justice under law. Our present law rejects that principle and discriminates against our friends in many of the lands of the free world. It discriminates against the Germans. the Italians. the Greeks. among other peoples.
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