I went to Europe last summer to study the operations of the McCarranWalter Act. The Senator may be surprised to know that our consular agents who operate under that law have said that from the standpoint of procedure and operation it is the best law which has ever been on the books. Many of the consular agents are veterans in the field of immigration. I did not find any great pressure in Europe for amendment of the act. Some nations would have desired a somewhat more liberal act. but they were accustomed to the national origins quota system. and did not make any great protest against it. I have found in the United States more opposition to the act. and more clamor for changes in it. than I heard in Europe. and largely from States where there were large numbers of socalled hyphenated votes. To me that smacks of clear politics.
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