Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              Dr. Edna R. Fluegel, in
Mercury for June,flatters anti-Mc-W people:
"The drive ia well-organized."  Refers to
introduction of legislation in 1956 by Sen
Arthur Watkins and Ev
erett Dlrksen a6 "a
surprise attack on
the imiriSgr law" !
Bows to Rep. Francis
E. Walter, Chairman of
House Immigr Subc, as
"able to 8tall off passage
thru the House'! and hark
ens back nostalgically to
Mercury, Nov,1956, ltem
by Richard Sherman: "Rep
Walter Outsmarts the Reds"
She is all for the natl
origins quota system which
"gears the cultural pattern of immigr to the
cultural pattern of our
country for maximum assimilation" . ."One of the key
officials in the WH Is Maxwell Rabb who is secy to the
cabinet and whose principal
durty Is to look after the
interests of minority groups
...Only vigrous action (etc
P94,Col 2 vs Commies
The game of skillful
propagandists is to fog up
the issues and"to misinform
the public"
"The House Comm On UnA
Activities recently revealed
that the CP has created 180
organizations in the US, all
avowed purpose of repealing
or weakening the Mc-W, Act.
• * •
"A careful study should be
made of the 7 million people
who are Illegally in our
country.
(See her shocking threat ti
tighten the act rather than
liberalize lt) in final
paragraph
These conformists
who speak so lovingly
of the Am cultural
pattern are among the
first to oppose desegr
and would certainly not
be caught advocating
racial intermarriage.
Nathan
Glazer (265):"Was not
Am culture different
from other cultures—
Indeed, based on difference and heterogeneity? How could excl
usionism have been a
defense, rather than
an attack on basic Am
principles.
Glazer refers to a
"pervasive sense of
heterogeneity"
"Nations have rarely
been faced with the
problem of deciding
their ethnic make-up
but the Un St was."
(Come good or woe;
my status is quo)
♦ • •
Lou Jaffa:"If Am
be, in fact, a haven,
even on a token basis,
of oppressed or hopeless peoples, Its
claim to lead the
world in the name of
brotherhood is more
persuasive .
"It was the avowed
intention of
with the the Act of 1924
to favor the
so-called Nordic race
and to disfavor the
Slavic, Medit and Jewish
stocks ....It was sometimes
argued ln support of the
policy that the Nordic
>  races are 'superior1, at
other times, more guardedly
that their char, and culture
are more consistent with the
Ideal or at least established
concept of the American
(See bottom of 362 and top
of 363 for clincher)