Speech #830012367

He continued his studies and was graduated later from Columbia College and Columbia University Law School. my own alma mater. receiving his law degree from the latter in 1912. Always a fighting liberal during his service in Congress. he has watched our country rise from its policy of isolation to one of world leadership extending a helping hand to all the world. In 1924. he plunged into the fierce controversy raging over immigration. and has ever since been identified with the subject of immigration and naturalization. An active member of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. and more recently its chairman. he has had ample opportunity to help the cause of freedom and has fought in said committee. and on the floor of the House. every bill discussed. which he considered discriminatory. In the 81st Congress. he introduced a bill to amend the Displaced Persons Act to permit 339.000 displaced persons to enter the United States. instead of 200.000. and over a period of 4 years instead of 2 years. His bill also liberalized many other discriminatory features of that act. In addition. he introduced emergency legislation to permit 300.000 refugees who have been displaced since World War II. including those from Iron Curtain countries who were not covered by the Displaced Persons Act to enter over a period of 3 years. He has been. and is still endeavoring to liberalize the unjust provisions of the McCarrdn Act of the last Congress. Congressman CrLLER made the most of his opportunity in Brooklyn where he has grown up from childhood with the Irish. the Jews. the Italians. the Greeks. and peoples of all the world.