The Senate Immigration Subcommittee was urged by the Jewish War Veterans this week-end to see to it that Nazis as well as Communists are barred from inclusion among the 240,000 Europeans whom President Eisenhower has asked to be admitted within the next two years outside existing quotas. Testifying for the JWV, Louis Spiegler urged that Nazis and other varieties of Fascists should be prohibited from entering the United States in the guise of “escapees from Communism.”
Herman Edelsberg, Washington representative of the British Anti-Defamation League, also testified in support of President Eisenhower’s request for emergency immigration legislation. The 62nd annual convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs defeated, by a vote of 246-242, a resolution supporting President Eisenhower’s request for admission of the 240,000 refugee immigrants.
(Ann S. Petluck, assistant director of United Service for New Americans, told delegates to the National Conference of Jewish Communal Services at Atlantic City that the drafters of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Law retained most of the undemocratic features of older laws and added new ones while publicly declaring that they were improving our immigration laws.)
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