Newspaper Wire Service Report

and only [IMMIGRATION) your REP. FRANCIS E. WALTER (D-PA.) TOLD THE HOUSE THERE IS NOT "A DOWN PRECIOUS RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS. SCINTILLA OF TRUTH" IN CHARGES THAT HIS IMMIGRATION BILL WOULD "TEAR 3 HE SAID THE "FALSE AND GROUNDLESS " CHARGES ARE PART OF A *PROPAGANDA DRIVE" AGAINST THE MEASURE LED BY LEADERS OF THE AMERICAN COMMISSION JEWISH CONGRESS, THE HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT'S DISPLACED PERSONS BUT HOUSE LEADERS DECIDED LATE IN YESTERDAY'S SESSION TO DEFER IT WALTER'S 165-PAGE BILL HAD BEEN SCHEDULED FOR FLOOR DEBATE TODAY, FOR A WEEK OR MORE. THE PENNSYLVANIAN, WHO WAS IN DETROIT YESTERDAY FOR HEARINGS BY THE HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE, SAID HE WOULD HAVE OBJECTED STRENUOUSLY TO THAT DECISION HAD HE BEEN PRESENT. HE TOLD HIS COLLEAGUES THAT, DESPITE WHAT OPPONENTS MAY SAY, HIS BILI. IS "A PROGRESSIVE MEASURE DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES HE SAID THE BILL *FINALLY REPEALS' ALL DISCRIMINATIONS IN IMMIGRATION LAWS RESULTING FROM RACE OR SEX AND STRENGTHENS THE GOVERN- MENT'S HAND IN EXCLUDING OR DEPORTING SUBVERSIVES, SECURITY RISKS AND OTHER UNDESIRABLE ALIENS. NOTING PROTESTS THAT THE BILL DID NOT GET "ADEQUATE HEARINGS, " WALTER SAID IT WAS CONSIDERED BY THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS. 3/13--N113P HE SAID THE GROUP HEARD 56 WITNESSES AND RECEIVED 78 FORMAL STATEMENTS DURING THE LENGTHY DELIBERATIONS. THE ONLY STATEMENTS IN OPPOSITION, HE SAID, WERE MADE BY DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS, AND AN ATTORNEY REPRESENT ING "REFUGEE INTERESTS HE SAID GOLDSTEIN AND NATHANIAL ROSENFIELD, HEAD OF THE DISPLACED PERSONS PROGRAM, HAVE DENOUNCED THE BILL AS ERECTING AN "IRON CURTAIN THAT WOULD BAR MANY DESIRABLE CITIZENS FROM THE UNITED STATES. HE SAID THE PEOPLES' VOICE, "WHICH INCIDENTALLY IS A COMMUNIST PUBLICATION, " HAS JOINED THE DRIVE BY SAYING THAT "CONGRESSMAN WALTER POSSESSES AN ANTI-LABOR RECORD " ALL SUCH CHARGES, HE SAID, "ARE WITHOUT FOUNDATION. THIS IS A PROGRESSIVE MEASURE WHICH IS DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES." 3/13--N122P