Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article written for the Crimson by Dr. Stephen Czako, Roya Hungarian Ministerial Vice-Secretary and Pugsley Scholar in International Law, deals with the Hungarian situation of racial minorities. It is supplementary to the article by Professor W. L. Langer '15 on the problem of racial minorities in Europe which appeared in last Tuesday's Crimson. Professor Langer's article dealt chiefly with the German side of the question and so interested Dr. Czako that he volunteered the following discussion of the Hungarian situation...
...central and eastern Europe the frontiers of nationality are not clearly defined geographically. This is a point that must be kept constantly in mind in discussing the question of racial minorities, one of the most dangerous questions in European politics of the present day and quite as menacing to the cause of peace as the reparations problem or the problem of disarmament. Just because of the fact that the European nationalities merge gradually into one another, and because of the fact that there are, in various localities of eastern Europe, isolated racial islands embedded in the larger national blocks...
...surgeon, about to make a transfusion, scientifically matches a donor's blood to his patient's to such purpose that no shock results. In like manner Congress has ordained that Immigration shall be scientifically matched to the U. S. racial bloodstream...
National Origins. This was not a scientific way to filter aliens into the U. S if the original native stock of the country was to be preserved. The 1924 law therefore carried a provision for the establishment of quotas based on National Origins Scientists were to determine the racial composition of the present day U. S., starting from the first U. S. census (1790. pop 3,900,000), analyzing the growth of population to date with reference to national ancestries and thus, in effect, fixing the proportion each foreign country contributed to U.S. "native stock" and the development of that...
Postponement. The British burned most early U. S. census details in the sack of Washington in 1814. Native stock, clear in the early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...