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Last week the principle of national origins came under heavy fire from Senate liberals. Up for debate and disposition was an omnibus immigration measure sponsored by Nevada's Pat McCarran. In essence, the bill proposes no real departure in policy. Product of almost three years of study and hearings by the judiciary committees, it is designed to bring thousands of piecemeal immigration statutes and regulations (accumulated since 1798) into one handy, compact code. In the process, it would remove some glaring inequities, e.g., all Asiatic immigrants would be eligible for citizenship, where previously Japanese and certain others were barred...
...Equality. New York's Herbert Lehman, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, and Illinois' Paul Douglas led a strong protest against holding to the old rules. The McCarran bill, they agreed, is "harsh . . . discriminatory . . . undemocratic." Lehman called for "a new approach to the whole subject of immigration . . . to demonstrate to the world that we are sincere in advocating principles based on equality of men of all races and nations." Pastore passionately urged: "We should take the roster of the American Army in World War II . . . and, upon the basis of those racial strains...
...Pooling of unused quotas; the McCarran bill keeps the old system under which unused quotas cannot be transferred to countries whose quotas are exhausted. ¶ Updating of population base, from 1920 to 1950, for determining quotas. ¶ Provisions to allow Orientals who are naturalized citizens of Western nations (e.g., Hong Kong Chinese) to immigrate under the quotas of their Western nationalities; the McCarran bill puts all Orientals, regardless of citizenship, in the small quotas assigned to their ancestral countries. ¶ Revamping of deportation rules and procedures; under the McCarran bill, it is at least theoretically possible for a naturalized citizen...
Warning of Disaster. Windy old Pat McCarran took the floor for what was practically a singlehanded oratorical fight against the critics. Their proposals, he thundered, would be "disastrous" to the U.S.: ". . . opening of the gates to a flood of Asiatics . . . destruction of the national-origins quota system . . . would, in the course of a generation or so, change the ethnic and cultural composition of this nation...
...critics forthwith ranked him ahead of Schnabel, Backhaus and Serkin. For the time being, at least, U.S. Beethoven fans will have to appraise his works from recordings. Like his fellow German pianist, Walter Gieseking, Kempff chose to go on playing in Germany under Hitler, now seems disinclined to risk McCarran Act visa difficulties, and the kind of uproar that sent Gieseking home in 1949. He has recorded most of the Beethoven sonatas in the past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked by lustrous tone and silent surfaces. Kempff plays with splendid seriousness in the diabolical Hammerklavier...