The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-07-23

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He pointed to his study of Hawaii
four years ago with a special COM
mittee investigating statehood and
said "rumors of sabotage and dis
loyalty by the japanese were COM
pletely unfounded".
Myer told the subcommittee many
complexities have grown out OF the
fact that people have lived here for
years and years, but could not be-
come citizens.
He characterized the Japanese
as, ''in general a loyal, hard-work-
ing, law-abiding, self-disciplined
people, and said 1t was highly
likely that If the Judd bill were
law before the war there pro-
badly would never have been an
evacuation.
Urging immediate action by the
Senate, he emphatically said that
this country should make mo ban
on the basis OF color" in immigra-
ton or naturalization.
Speaking as a longtime mission
airy in Japan and one who spent
much of the war in japanese con-
centration camp, The Rev. Mr..
Briggs saidi
LAS a Christian and likewise as an
American, I heartily endorse all
legislation which would terminate
racial discrimination in granting
United States Citizenship and In
extending the immigration quota to
people of Asiatic origin.
There is one thing we have to
say for Communism: 1t certainly
is not characterized by any racial
discrimination. Democracy has
worked wonders in Japan, but it
now remains for us to secure what
we have accomplished there. The
friendship of a billion (Asiatics) is
in the balance. 1t is important that
we do nothing to ALLEVIATE their
friendship"
Besides answering the question
that the Judd bill would involve no
security risks, Ennis, speaking as
chairman of the CEN, said his Or
ganization was opposed to three
sections of the measure and urged
their elimination. These are
/. Quota restrictions on wives
and minor chiidren from coun-
tries having a quota less than 200
annually: 2. Any change in Inn
migration regulations for the
Philippines; 8. Any change in the
immigration status of West In
dams.
Ennis pointed out that the de-
cision to evacuate the Japanese was
entirely military one and added:
"It has been said that dictators
do not dare admit mistakes but that
an outstanding feature of democra-
tic government is that it can admit
its mistakes and do something to
rectify them.
There Is no practical reason for
present American policy on natura-
lization," he added. I'm all justice,
the law should be rectified without
delay"
AS the official representative of
the American Council on Human
Rights, Elmer w. Henderson said
his organization supports the prin-
ciples underlying this measure" but
he asserted it creates discrimination
where none existed before.
He pointed out the bill does
this by provisions which would
reduce immigration from the West
Indies and called this direct
affront" to the people of the Ca
r1bbean.
Ward Canaday, member of the
U. S. Delegation to the West In
dian Conference, told the subcom-
mittee the conference also is con-
cerned with section of the Judd
measure dealing with the West In
dies. He said the Caribbean con-
siders the bill "unfriendly as far as
the West Indies are concerned"
Cullum discussed several technical
changes in the bill in his testimony,
and dwelt at length upon his re-
lationship with persons of Japanese
ancestry during the time he was
associated with the WRA.
He said: I'VE believe the Judd bill
accomplishes the desired results (of
integrating the Japanese into Am
erica) fully within the principles es-
tablished by present nationality and
immigration law, and does so with
no possible consequence of introdu-
cling an unassimilable mass of people
into the United States. "This legis-
lation has been almost universally
accepted by the American people"
The subcommittee adjourned for
the day after Cullum's testimony.
WASHINGTON. ID. c., July