Mr. Chairman. I am an immigrant myself. If anyone has sympathy for immigrants. I have. I was superintendent of schools for 30 years where we had 17 different nationalities in our geography classes. My educational thesis was written on the subject. The Americanization Work of the Oglesby Public Schools. There is not a person in this House that has greater sympathy or greater respect for immigrants than I have. This country has given me. an immigrant. the opportunity that no other country would give. With that as a basis. may I say that I supported the displaced persons bill. In. fact. I helped to initiate it. Our experience with the DPs has not been as good as some of us hoped and expected. I feel that in addition to the regular quotas that are coming into this country under the quota law. under the McCarranWalter Act. we have taken our share of the refugees from Europe. Therefore. I am opposing this bill and opposing taking any more of these refugees or DPs. Our experience has been bad with the ones that we have taken in. I know that from personal contact and observation with several of them.
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