Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts

              The  Jewish Connnunity Council of Metropolitan Boston joined with 28 other
urban councils,  the American  Jewish Congress;, the Jewish Labor Committee, the  Jewish
War Veterans, the Synagogue Council  of Arwrica and the National  Community Relations
Advisory Council
l this week, in issuing the   folloTOng statement «
■PRBSIDIi31T»S .Ci-JI.1i.II go I WiT  0H-lfflff0nATION
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Pending full study of the Report of the President's Commission on
Immigration and Naturalization, "Whom We Shall Welcome,- eTnc ub- U+f
wd"gT»,gi grrc d -Jowioh organle-afrisns--consider the major recommendations
set out therein a splendid formulation of the principles on which
a genuinely American Immigration policy should rest..
Those recommendations reflect and in large measure embody the basic,
conceptions of a humane, equitable, forward-looking immigration
policy in keeping with the traditions of the United States and
appropriate to its present position of leadership and responsibility in the world.  We are gratified that the principles of immlgra--
tion, which v/ere urged upon the Commission in the course of the extensive hearings by spokesmen representing the three major' faiths
as well as major labor, civic, fraternal and veterans organizations,
have been incorporated in the Commission's recommendations. . It is
hope that these recommendations may early be.^translated
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our earnest
Into  law.
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'Hour present immigration laws as th
mental American •.traditions and ide
America's future, dan age American
other nations, and ignore the less
and, as the Commission concludes,
written." It is encouraging to re
hower, during the elction campaign
tion law must be rewritten - a be
will strike an intelligent balance
of America and the prayerful hopes
A law based on the recommendations
those criteria.
e Commission says, "flout funda-
als, display a lack of faith in
prestige and position among
ons of the American way of life;"
they *should be completely recall that President-elect Elsen-
, al30 declared that the"immigra-
tter law must be written that
between the immigration welfare
of the unhappy and the oppressed.'
of the Commission would meet   \
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The Commission carried out its assigned task with care and thoroughness.  The members of the Commission undertook their responsibilities as public-spirited, courageous and forthright men and discharged them with distinction.  They served wholly without' partisanship, in the finest American tradition, putting aside private concerns in the public interest, and they and their report merit the
commendation of all Americans. •*'
American Jewish ^ongress
Hebrew/lmmigraht Aid Society
Jewish Laboi^ Committee
Jewishi-War. Ve^e .
Synagogue^-Cpuncil of America
JJp.ion of/American Hebrew Congregations
NationaSsComraunity Relations
Advisory CoupetX^^'