The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-19

and "cheap Chinese labor" became
 terrible battle cries and forceful
 political slogans. Riots, bloodsheds
 and persecution of the Chinese were
 the order of the day.
 Step by angry step, anti-Chinese
 immigration laws began to be en-
 acted. They eliminated in 1926
 with the so-called Chinese Exclu-
 sion Laws which still stand on
 our statute books today, singling out the people of the Orient alone as totally unfit for American citi- zenship.
 Although there are only 75,000 Chinese in America today, these laws refuse complettly entrance to any more, unless they are ministers, doctors, teachers or students. Un- der the so-called quota system, every other nationality and race can enter the U. S. A.
 The quota system is based on the percentage of any nationality in the country at the time it was adopted. This percentage system, if applied to the Chinese, would al- low not more than 105 to enter the United States each year.
 It was to permit the application of this system to our Oriental AL lies that an anti-exclusion bill was introduced into Congress in the early part of this year and re- ferred to the Immigration and Ma turalization Committee. After sev- eral weeks of hard sledding, in stormy secret executive session, by one vote the committed refused to report the bill out.
 JAP PROPAGANDIsTs
 MAKE HAY
 Hard pressed for good propaganda material, the Jap radio took full advantage of the committees at titude by blaring out to its listen CTS in the Orient that Americans, by failing to repeal the law, were really tipping their hands as trace conscious" people only interested in the Chinese for the military help they were currently getting out of them.
 Through all this the Chinese and their officials have preserved the traditional patience of the Orient. But can they help asking them selves: Is the battle of Asia, as it is in Europe, a battle for men who would be free againsht men who would enslave them?
 Is this, then, from Americas point of view, war for human equality | in Europe but the very opposite in Asia? Are we to lick the Nazis because they have propounded the doctrine of racial inferiority," and 1 then turn around and propound | that doctrine ourselves for Asiatics?
 For Americans to fail to realize that the Chinese and all the peo- pies of Asia are asking themselves these questions is for us not only to lose the peace in our time but, in the end, to encourage the de- struction of America. We cannot | afford the luxury of racial snob- bery any longer, either at home or abroad.
 4vA1 DG oOn fhL- LIES IN THIRD WAR
 Remember, there are so many millions more of them than there are of us that if the Asiatics set | off one way down the highway of material progress, with hatred in their hearts for us, and we set off | in the opposite direction with in difference and contempt in our minds and souls for them, we shall | surely not survive should we meet | them on the crossroads of third | war and meet them we would | because the world is round and not | feat anywhere.
 At the next session of Congress | a new bill will be introduced to re- peal the yellow-dog Chinese Ex- clusion Act. Will 1t pass? And what | of it doesn't?
 For the price of 100 planes, Burma | was probably lost. For the price of 100 more, China has almost been lost time and time again. For the price of letting 105 Chinese into the U. s. A., Chinese face can be so lost that after the war we might | lose forever the hope of friendly | cooperation with all of Asia.