Mr. Speaker. there is real reason for hope that this Congress will modify the ethnic and racial provisions of the discriminatory Immigration and Nationality Act. Along with other Members of Congress I have consistently worked for revision of the McCarranWalter Act. Such revision is not expected to open the country to a flood of immigrants. as opponents of revision say they believe. but it would extend the unused quotas to those peoples in southern Europe. Harry Golden. an illustrious citizen of North Carolina. in a recent article syndicated by the ScrippsHoward Newspaper Alliance. wrote: It may come as a surprise to many people to know that at the beginning of this century. onehalf of our Nation could not go back further than one of their grandparents as a native American. and this. incidentally. was the beginning of Americas tremendous intellectual vitality and expansion. Mr.
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