Speech #860115574

There is nothing in the individuals genes which explains criminality or intolerance or subversiveness. For every criminal or subversive with a foreignsounding name. the records are replete with hundreds of scientists. musicians. industrialists and every other type of positive contributor to the American way of life. The national origins quota system has no place on the American statute books. It reflects an unAmerican policy of racial superiority. it fails to reflect the needs of a democratic America in a changing world. In the absence of unrestricted immigration. there -must be some criteria for selection of those who can be admitted in the place of the national origins quota system. We would support any standards which flow from this basic consideration: Which people does America need most. and which people need America most? Earlier this year Congress itself most eloquently rejected the philosophy of the national origins system when it voted to admit Hawaii as a State. Our newest State has an Oriental majority. Of the 600.000 Hawaiians. 38 percent are Japanese and only 20 percent are white.