Further aid to non-citizens who wish to acquire “official status as Americans” was pledged yesterday by government officials and representatives of national service and welfare organizations attending the annual conference of the National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship held at the Hotel Roosevelt.
Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that the total number of naturalizations last year totaled 250,000, which represented “a 50 percent increase over the annual number of five years ago.” In addition to those, he stated, there are thousands of applications awaiting court action and other thousands of non-citizens who are attending classes to assist them in qualifying for the status of citizens. “The sincerity and good-will of our non-citizen groups,” he concluded, “have been apparent to the entire nation and it has been heartening to see how little alien baiting there has been up until now.”
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