President Truman’s plan to liberalize U.S. immigration laws to permit the entrance of thousands of European Jews and other displaced persons was attacked here last night by Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge, president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She charged that the President’s plan was part of a plot to “destroy American immigration laws and open the door to a flood of aliens.”
Mrs. Talmadge declared that “thousands of our war veterans are waiting to secure homes” and “other thousands seek the necessities of life,” and asserted that this is not the time to change the present quota system. She called for strict enforcement of the immigration laws “until our housing problem has been solved, until our problem of food and clothing and house furnishings have been met.”
She reiterated the policy of the DAR adopted at a recent national convention, calling for a return to a “selective and restrictive system of immigration” and opposing “further weakening of the immigration and naturalization laws.”
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