Within the limits of the immigration quota, the United States “can still set individuals free and strengthen our own civilization,” declares the New York Times in an editorial today on the University in Exile. The editorial said.
“Many times America has been immeasurably enriched because of tyranny and intolerance in other lands. Pilgrims, Huguenots, Germans leaving their native land after the abortive revolution of 1848, fugitives from Czaristic oppression in Poland and Russia, Irish immigrants long before the days of the Irish Republic — all have contributed to our culture. We no longer open our gates as we did in former times to mass migrations. Ellis Island is now a port of departure rather than of entry. But within the quota limits we can still set individuals free and strengthen our own civilization.”
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