I refer to Public Law 414. 82d Congress. known as the McCarranWalter Act. The public controversy which attended enactment of that law does not detract from the years of work. research and public hearings required to bring into one codified statute all the then existing laws related to immigration and nationality policy. "TAD" was the first to admit the law with which his name is identified was not a panacea just as he had been among the* first to advocate the need for a codified immigration law. for he knew that manmade laws. like the men who make them. are never perfect and that the tide of time makes change inevitable. Time and the test of experience will credit him with bringing a large degree of legal order into a special field of highly complicated public law. We will miss FRANCIS WALTER in the deliberations of this body where the force of his leadership was exceeded only by his concern for the preservation of American democracy.
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