News Brief

The House Immigration Committee met in executive session yesterday and discussed the Deportation Bill and the Box Bill to place Western Hemisphere immigrants under the quota. No definite decision was reached regarding the Deportation Bill and action on the Box Bill was deferred until Wednesday. The committee will meet again today.

An advertisement of almost half a page in size, headed with the words: “Senators you must now decide between America and the so-called foreign bloc,” was published in the “Washington Post” yesterday and was intended as an attempt to influence the Senate Immigration Committee against Senator Nye’s resolution to de- (Continued on Page 4)

fer the National Origins provision of the Immigration Law another year.

The advertisement is signed by John B. Trevor, Chairman of the National Immigration Restriction Conference, and Demarest Lloyd, Chairman of the National Immigration Legislative Committee and Honorary vice-president of the Immigration Restriction League, Inc. These organizations have offices at 204 Albee Building in this city, and seem to represent the so-called “pro-Nordic” group of which Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, the author of the National Origins plan, is spokesman in the Senate. The advertisement warns the Senate that: “an attempt is now being made to inflict another-perhaps a mortal-wound in the body of the Immigration Act of 1924 by forcing through the present Congress Senate Resolution No. 192 to postpone for the third time the National Origins Provision, and this without a public hearing.

“Petitions signed by many thousands of loyal Americans protesting such action have been filed with the Senate Committee on Immigration. Fifty-five and more of the leading American civic and patriotic organizations, by resolutions or otherwise, have insisted the present law remain as it is and that the National Origins Provision go into effect this year, as scheduled. These organizations, numbering in membership close to two million true, loyal, patriotic citizens, are striving by every means to support and sustain American institutions.

“On the other hand, National Origins is mainly opposed and condemned by the following: (1) Those so-called ‘foreign blocs’ opposed to all restrictions. (2) Those so-called ‘foreign blocs’ enjoying inordinately large quotas under the temporary 1890 ‘foreign-born’ basis. (3) Office holders, writers and publicists, some of whom appear to be either in sympathy with or afraid of one or both of groups (1) and (2). (4) Well meaning, and in many cases most patriotic, citizens who have unavoidably been influenced by the propaganda emanating in bewildering complexity from groups (1), (2) and (3),” the advertisement declares.