The National Council of Churches today called on the platform committee of the Democratic Party to include a plank in the party’s platform pledging efforts to eliminate the discriminatory, national origins quota, provisions of U. S. immigration laws.
Addressing the committee, Mrs. Theodore F. Wallace, a vice-president of the National Council of Churches, said that “any system which gives three countries (Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom) 70 percent of the available quotas, while 102 countries receive the remaining 30 per cent, is an affront to the peoples of the world. “
“We hope that the Democratic National Convention could pledge its support for substantial reform of our immigration laws at the earliest possible moment, ” Mrs. Wallace declared.
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