Letter from Leonard H. Pasqualicchio to President Harry S. Truman with Attached Statement

C/ ity GEORGE J. SPATUZZA 133 SUPREME VENERABLE 13/2018 FILED BY MR. HOPKINS SUPREME LODGE JUL 9 1952 ORDER SONS OF ITALY IN AMERICA OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL DEPUTY WASHINGTON, D. C. EXECUTIVE 8280 LEONARD H. PASQUALICCHIO SUITE 410 ATLANTIC BLDG. NATIONAL DEPUTY June 4, 1952 930 F STREET, NORTHWEST x 233. mise The Honorable Harry S. Truman, President The White House Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: For the past three weeks the McCarran-Walter Omnibus Immigration Bills have been debated and passed in the Senate and House of Representatives. It is a most unfortunate thing when legislation of such importance should be approved without proper study by the Members of Congress. I would venture to say, Mr. President, that approximately seventy-five per cent of the members of the United States Senate who voted for the McCarran Bill have not read it, and therefore are not familiar with its vicious and un- American provisions. The bill is so complex that it poses questions of our basic national philosophy. It also poses questions of laws, of justice, and civil liberties. It threatens to disrupt our foreign policy and our internal security and will seriously weaken the United States in the cold war against Communist aggression. It is the general opinion of our Supreme Officers and the officers and members of over twenty-two hundred lodges in thirty-five States of the Union that the McCarran Bill should not have been passed by the United States Senate. Being familiar with your personal interest in the problems of over-population in foreign countries and according to your declaration to the United States Congress on March 24, 1952, we are certain that you are not in sympathy with legislation of this character and we therefore, urgenly recommend that you veto the McCarran Bill. NATIONAL TRUMAN # Re SB e ctfully yours, MICHIVES AND BECORDS EERVICE H. PASQUALICCHIO x National Deputy