Permitting Admission of 400,000 Displaced Persons Into the United States: Hearings Before Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2910, a Bill to Authorize the United States During an Emergency Period to Undertake Its Fair Share in the Resettlement of Displaced Persons in Germany, Austria, and Italy ... June 4, 6, 13, 20, 25, 27, and July 2, 9, 16, 18, 1947Considers (80) H.R. 3620, (80) H.R. 2910. |
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... political opinions . Mr. FELLOWs . We have 2 hours before the House convenes , and we are very glad to hear from Mr. Stratton . STATEMENT OF HON . WILLIAM G. STRATTON , A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ILLINOIS Mr ...
... political opinions . Mr. FELLOWs . We have 2 hours before the House convenes , and we are very glad to hear from Mr. Stratton . STATEMENT OF HON . WILLIAM G. STRATTON , A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ILLINOIS Mr ...
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... political opinions ? Mr. STRATTON . That is right . In my estimation , those people people should go home . Mr. CELLER . Right . Now , as to the Presidential order , as far as you know , and as far as I know - I am sure you will agree ...
... political opinions ? Mr. STRATTON . That is right . In my estimation , those people people should go home . Mr. CELLER . Right . Now , as to the Presidential order , as far as you know , and as far as I know - I am sure you will agree ...
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... political problem , of catering to the foreign - bloc votes in these big States , like your State of Illinois , New York , and so on . Both parties are trying to outdo themselves by ingratiating them- selves with the big foreign - bloc ...
... political problem , of catering to the foreign - bloc votes in these big States , like your State of Illinois , New York , and so on . Both parties are trying to outdo themselves by ingratiating them- selves with the big foreign - bloc ...
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... political capital out of this or the Republican Party . There are a great number of us who have been in favor of this legis- lation . We have not put it on a political basis or a partisan basis what- soever . Mr. GOSSETT . I notice they ...
... political capital out of this or the Republican Party . There are a great number of us who have been in favor of this legis- lation . We have not put it on a political basis or a partisan basis what- soever . Mr. GOSSETT . I notice they ...
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... political grounds . Why don't we open our doors to them ? -Bayonne ( N. J. ) Times , April 7 , 1947 . For months , American sympathy has gone out to the more than 750,000 dis- placed persons crowded in concentration camps in Germany ...
... political grounds . Why don't we open our doors to them ? -Bayonne ( N. J. ) Times , April 7 , 1947 . For months , American sympathy has gone out to the more than 750,000 dis- placed persons crowded in concentration camps in Germany ...
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Page 554 - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Page 446 - That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.
Page 459 - ... shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?
Page 139 - No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
Page 236 - And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 65 - ... the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States...
Page 79 - Activities met, pursuant to call, at 11 : 25 am, in the Caucus Room of the Old House Office Building, Hon.
Page 226 - Upon the cancellation of such proceedings in any case in which such fee has been paid, the Commissioner shall record the alien's admission for permanent residence as of the date of his last entry into the United States...
Page 583 - When this country was new it might have been good p/olicy to admit all. But it is so no longer.
Page 584 - four essential human freedoms" for which America stands. In the years since then, those four freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear — have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.