They were the people who brought their diverse cultures so that the bloodstream of America coursed with greater vigor in the arts. in the sciences. and in the skills of mankind. As I reread in 1952 the words I spoke in 1924. I grew heartsick to know that there are passages in the 1924 immigration debate I had only to lift out to apply them to the immigration debate of 1952: "The war and the present postwar period. both redolent with hysteria. offer the worst possible background for reasoning out the immigration problem. As a result of the ordeal of the war we are still hysterical about immigration. The ultrarestrictionists and those behind the Johnson bill claim we are a disunited people. Nothing is further from the truth.
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