Ex-President Herbert Hoover’s hearty endorsement of the Wagner-Rogers bill for admission of 20,000 refugee children to the United States in two years was conveyed yesterday to the joint Congressional immigration subcommittee holding hearings on the measure.
“As you know,” Mr. Hoover said in a telegram read by Clarence E. Pickett, acting executive director of the Non-Sectarian Committee for German Refugee Children, “I strongly favor this bill providing for the admission into the United States of 20,000 refugee children. No harm, and only good, can come to a nation by such humane action. I have no doubt of their adoption into American homes. I am glad to see support of the measure by such great influences as both the Protestant and Catholic Churches and the American Federation of Labor.”
Dorothy Thompson, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of the Washington Episcopal Cathedral, Paul T. Beisser, president of the Child Welfare League of America and Dean Dudley D. Carroll of the University of North Carola also testified in support of the bill — the latter declaring the chief worry was that the South would not get enough of the refugee children — while opposition was voiced by Francis H. Kinnicutt, of the Allied Patriotic Societies of New York; Mrs. Agnes Waters of Washington, who said she represented widows of World War veterans, and Mrs. Charles Fuller Winter of Detroit, who said she spoke for Young Americans, Inc.
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