Speech #830013122

I welcome the opposition of the Hearst newspapers to the McCarran Act. More particularly. however. I refer to a sentence in the editorial which states that Senator MCCARRAN was in error in declaring that the opposition to his bill from the Presidents Commission on Immigration and Naturalization was a "rehash of the radical leftwing slant." In saying this. the Hearst newspapers are expressing a thought consistent with an editorial which appeared in the New York Times for January 20. 1953. condemning Senator MCCARRAN for recklessly implying that opponents of his act must be Communists or Communist sympathizers. The editorial says: Opponents of the McCarran Act include men and women of every religion. of every national strain. including his own. of every political party. of every occupation. and every walk of life. A little more confidence in honesty of motives and a little less suspicion that every opponent is a spy or a traitor would go a long way both on and off the floor of the Congress of the United States.