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Show IFeglek Sees St ity West brook Pegler TT WAS, in President Truman's 1 own cultured, political expression, expres-sion, "rotten" of him to wave the bloody shirt oi religious hatred in charging that the 80th congress had been guilty of religious discrimination discrimina-tion in the present displaced persons per-sons act. The 80th congress represented the people of the United States. This fTTjT law was a further act of self-sacri- " J ficc' hosPitality and ' Jvf-g. 3 great national com-passion. com-passion. Perhaps it I TS 7' was not truly ex' ; I:;SrJ prcssive of the pop- :, H&tJ ular wiH because, 'vVv 4 ior all we know, ' v v I the people, in a ref-V ref-V ' ' ' V -' erendum, would 4vAiii&al close the doors ab-PEGLER ab-PEGLER solutely. I direct attention at-tention to Uie fact that politicians, wailing in fear of minorities holding the balance of power, always have prevented the referral of such questions ques-tions to the people. When did you ever vote on help for some warring foreign country or on help to some persecuted per-secuted foreign minority? YOU VOTE ON AN ISSUE OF HOT LUNCHES OR A PLAYGROUND. PLAY-GROUND. President Truman may share the error of others who think there is some constitutional provision which compels us to admit without discrimination dis-crimination the members of all religious re-ligious communions and all races. On religion our Constitution says only that congress shall make no law "RESPECTING THE ESTABLISHMENT ESTAB-LISHMENT OF RELIGION," whatever what-ever that means, or "PROHIBITING "PROHIBIT-ING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF." . . The most that Control the first part of of that clause can Cults mean is that congress con-gress can't set up any faith as the official religion of the U. S. But if some cult tried to practice cannibalism or mayhem as a religious rite we would interfere quickly with the free exercise thereof. there-of. We would refuse absolutely to admit members of any such cult as immigrants and that exclusion would be based on religious grounds alone. Our exclusion of "Asiatics" for many years vwas based on religious objections among others. oth-ers. Our white Californians couldn't compete with them, because be-cause they could outwork the white man on one-fifth the food. We had a case of a native American Ameri-can son of Japanese parents during dur-ing the recent war which has a strange bearing on a large element of very impudent and brash Communists Com-munists concentrated in the city of New York and scattered in large lumps in other cities of the Easr Fred Korematsu, a Nisei, or native na-tive American Jap, was a citizen of absolutely unquestioned loyalty. But we rounded up all the Japs on the west coast and slammed them into concentration camps and 'Korematsu 'Ko-rematsu got his back up and resisted. re-sisted. He was convicted of dis obedience to the curfew and deportation de-portation orders of General De Witt, who was in command of the area, and the case went to the supreme court. Somehow, the boys ruled that it was all right to do this to Korematsu Kore-matsu and scmehow they reasoned that his racial descent had nothing to do with the case. . Justice Jackson. Crime :r. ,Mcconf L-;b-o of the majority right firth hi the teeth when he wrote, truthfully, truth-fully, that this citizen's conduct was made a crime only if his parents were of Japanese birth. The majority ma-jority mumbled stupidly to the effect that he was excluded because we were at war with Japan. That decision now means that, in view of our trouble with Russia we can throw into concentration camps all persons who came from Russia and her satellites, and all their sons and daughters. If they should happen to be preponderantly of any particular particu-lar race or religious faith that would be immaterial. The court says that such drastic protection protec-tion is justified if the military authority feels that the occasion occa-sion demands the segregation of persons coming from a country coun-try with which wc are at war, and their sons and daughters. The 15th amendment says the rights of citizens shall not be abridged on account of race or color. col-or. But European displaced persons aren't citizens and so they have no rights to be abridged. And we do not find any forbiddance against such abridgment on religious grounds. Only race or color. We can exclude immigrant.3 for any reason that seems sufficient. AND WHEN THE F.B.I, TELLS US THAT ABOUT ONE-HALF OF OUR COMMUNIST TRAITORS TH AC'! THEIR ORIGIN TO RUSSIA OR HER SATELLITES, WE HAVE A RIGHT TO CLOSE THE DOOR ABSOLUTELY AB-SOLUTELY TO PEOPLE FROM THOSE PLACES. |