Speech #840013413

I am rather proud of the fact that all those visits Dr. Pontecorvo paid to the secret United States laboratories were made before the enactment of the "iniquitous" McCarranWalter Act and that he could not have paid such a visit since its enactment. The national origins quota system. which is basically the target of the opposition to the act. has been in effect since 1929. It provides a mathematical formula for determining quota allocations. based on the 1920 census figures. with a view to the maintenance of homogeneity in this melting pot of nations. It was not designed to relieve population pressures in all the countries of the world.