It is again played with great fervor by those candidates for elective office who believe that organized minority groups wield enough power to clinch the vote in socalled close districts and States. There appears to be an irresistible fascination in the belief that when a certain congressional district or a State elects a Democrat one time and a Republican another by a small margin of ballots. the minority groups are responsible for the result. Consequently. as predictably as night follows day. we are confronted again in this election year with the peculiarly American sport of claiming at political rallies. at fundraising banquets. and in political propaganda pronouncements that this country does not admit a sufficient number of immigrants of one or another nationality. We do not admit enough Greeks. they say. or enough Chinese. Not enough Italians or Rumanians or Portuguese. We should admit more people from India. more from Indonesia. more from Pakistan. or from Iran. If we ask how many we should admit. the answer is always the same crymore. And if we ask more of whom. it turns out that the speaker always means more of the people of that national group which the immigration auctioneer is addressing at that particular moment. All right then. 5.000. 50.000? No. Sixty thousand? Or that part of the number of Immigrants which another nationality has not sent to this country? No. Still not enough. and around and around we go.
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