Speaking at the second session of the 47th annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association, Louis Marshall, prominent attorney and chairman of the American Jewish Committee, described the proposed Johnson Immigration Bill as discriminatory “looking as if it had been dictated by the Ku Klux Klan.” Mr. Marshall said that this country owes everything to immigration and that but for the immigrant we should not be a nation of 110,000,000 happy and prosperous people.
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