E D G UIDE TO THE P APERS OF E D L EE G OSSETT Box 1 IMMIGRATION/DISPLACED PERSONS Correspondence 7 folders: 1945-1946 FOLDER CONTENTS 1 Correspondence, March, 1948 2 Correspondence, 1945. 3 Immigration Committee, 1946. Correspondence concerning quotas. The following are copies of bills introduced in the House of Representatives : H. R. 2626...to provide for the extension...of the Classification Act of 1923... / Mr. Ramspeck. -- March 15, 1945. -- 3 p. H. R. 3663 ...to amend the immigration and naturalization laws... / Mr. Gossett. -- July 3, 1945. -- 3 p. H. R. 4970...for the relief of Samuel Valente / Mr. Byrne. -- Dec. 12, 1945. -- 1 p. H. R. 4866...for the relief of Ezra Buttler Eddy, Jr... / Mr. Latham. -- Nov. 29, 1945. -- 1 p. H. R. 5454... to amend the Immigration Act of Feb. 5, 1917... -- June 26, 1946. -- typed carbon ; legal size ; 2 leaves + Objections to H.R. 5454, as amended. -- typed ; legal size ; 2 leaves. H. R. 6120....relating to the admission...of certain individuals who have served in the Polish Army... / Mr. Sadowski. -- April 13, 1946. -- 2 p. Plus the following article : My Japanese wife... / by Raymond Cromley. — The American Magazine. -- Dec., 1942. -- reprint ; 4 p. 4 Committee correspondence re H. R. 3663, 1946. Includes Brief statement of facts and holdings on designated deportation cases / Federal Law Section. — Washington : Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, April 8, 1946. -- carbon copy ; 3 leaves. Statement / by Lewis G. Hines (National legislative representative). -- American Federation of Labor, March 20, 1946. -- mimeographed ; 2 leaves Statement in opposition to H. R. 3663 / Judge Nathan D. Perlman. -- [1946?]. -- mimeographed ; 13 leaves. See also Box 7, file 40. Box 1 5 Committee correspondence, March-July, 1946. Includes seven page letter from Ugo Carusi, Commissioner, dated May 8, 1946, replying to Gossett's request to the Attorney General on April 9, 1946, for statistical data on immigration activities. 6 Committee correspondence, August, 1946. Also includes the following articles : Do you want America flooded with Asian refugees? / George Washington Robnett, ed. -- News and Views. -- Bulletin No. 181 ( Feb. 25, 1948) -- Chicago : National Laymen's Council, Church League of America. -- 2 p. B AYLOR C OLLECTIONS OF P OLITICAL M ATERIALS U PDATED F ALL, 1992 WACO, T EXAS PAGE 1 GUIDE TO THE PAPERS OF ED LEE GOSSETT FOLDER CONTENTS Immigration restriction in the United States. -- Monthly Review. -- vol. IV, no. 7 (Jan., 1947) ; p.82-90. -- Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service. -- File contains entire issue ; p.81- 94. The Stratton Bill. -- Monthly Review. -- vol. V, no. 2 (August, 1947) ; p.15-16. -- Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service. -- File contains entire issue ; p.15-28. Deportation of aliens of the immoral classes. -- Monthly Review. -- vol V, no. 5 (Nov., 1947) ; p.62-63. -- Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service. -- File contains entire issue ; p.53- 66. Importation of alien laborers. -- Monthly Review. -- vol. IV, no. 10 (April, 1947) ; p.129-133. -- Department of Justice, Immigration. -- File contains entire issue ; p.123-136. DPs : problem and solution. -- Industrial Bulletin. -- vol. 28, no. 7 (July, 1949) ; p.11-17. -- Monthly News Magazine ; New York State Department of Labor. -- + How DPs are selected, p.18-21f. -- File contains entire issue ; 40 p. Europeans voluntarily displaced. -- The International Teamster ; vol. XLV, no. 1 (December, 1947) ; p.5-6. -- File contains entire issue ; 32 p. "The Maryland Plan" for the resettlement of displaced persons. -- Maryland State Committee for the Resettlement of Displaced Persons. -- 10 p. ; ill. New fifth column or the refugee racket / Ed Gossett. — Washington : House of Representatives, July 2, 1947. -- Printed copy ; 8 p. + two rough drafts ; typed ; legal size ; hand corrections ; 12 p., 7 p. Drafts carry additional title "Foreign Invasion." Should we let the refugees in : opening statement on WGN program "Your Right to Say It" / Ed Gossett. -- Sept. 8, 1946. -- typed copy ; legal size ; 4 p. Box 1 7 Immigration Correspondence, Aug 21 to Nov., 1946. Includes : Should we further restrict immigration : Opening statement on "The American Forum of the Air,"/ Ed Gossett. Feb., 11, 1947. Box 2 IMMIGRATION/DISPLACED PERSONS Correspondence 1 folder : 1947 8 Correspondence, individual cases and bills, 1947. Includes copies of the following bills for individual naturalization : H. R. 387 re Hayato Harris Ozawa. -- Jan. 3, 1947. H. R. 826 re Alfonso Felice. -- Jan. 10, 1947. H. R. 844 re Gustav Lukowicz. -- Jan. 10, 1947. H. R. 1073 re Juan Dominquez Argibay. -- Jan. 16, 1947. H. R. 1411 re Arlindo Neves. -- Jan. 27, 1947. H. R. 1493 re Anna Malama Mark. -- Jan. 29, 1947. H. R. 1520 re Ludmila Buresova, alias Buresh... -- Jan. 29, 1947. H. R. 1529 re John Schneider. -- Jan. 29, 1947. H. R. 1742 re Mary Lomas. -- Feb. 5, 1947. H. R. 1743 re Nicholas Matheos. -- Feb. 5, 1947. H. R. 2208 re Robert Machado. -- Feb. 24, 1947. H. R. 2426 re Harry Eric Elbot. -- March 6, 1947. H. R. 2529 re Domenico Marrazzo. -- March 12, 1947. Resume of the case history re : deportation of Dr. Karl von Kleczkowski. -- carbon copy, typed 7 leaves. B AYLOR C OLLECTIONS OF P OLITICAL M ATERIALS U PDATED F ALL, 1992 WACO, T EXAS PAGE 2 GUIDE TO THE PAPERS OF ED LEE GOSSETT FOLDER CONTENTS Box 3 IMMIGRATION/DISPLACED PERSONS Correspondence 6 folders: 1948 9 Immigration articles, several long and unsigned. Published articles : Britian presses U.S. for clearer policy on Palestine / Grant S. McClellan. Foreign Policy Bulletin. -- vol. XXV, no. 44 (Aug. 16, 1946). p.2-3. -- New York : Foreign Policy Assoc. Box 3 9 What's behind farm machinery strikes? -- Farm Journal. -- Aug., 1946. -- reprint ; 4 p. H. R. 414... a bill to reduce immigration quotas / Mr. Gossett. -- Jan. 3, 1945. -- 1 p. Cry of the Israelites to all Christian nations [poem] / by Oliver Allstorm. -- Distributed by American- Jewish Refugees Association, [1946?]. -- 1 leaf. 10 Correspondence of Nagene Campbell Bethune. The following four items were mailed to many people by Miss? Bethune: Message to the women of America : Open letter to Americans / Nagene Campbell Bethune. — Washington : the author, June 19, 1947. 4 p. Labor's Bill of Rights well defined in Hartley Bill (H. R. 3020) : "Factual Analysis Inside." / Committee for Constitutional Government. — New York : the committee, [1947?]. -- 4 p. New fifth column or the refugee racket / Ed Gossett. — Washington : the author, July 2, 1947. -- 8 p. This is also filed in Box 1, file 6. Imports of whisky under trade agreements / Daniel A. Reed. — Congressional Record. -- June 5, 1947. -- reprint ; 3 p. See yellow note on back by Nagene Campbell Bethune. 11 Correspondence, Jan., 1948 and news articles. 12 Correspondence, Feb., 1948 and news articles re quota cuts. 13 Correspondence, April-May, 1948 and news articles. 14 Correspondence, June-December, 1948 Box 4 IMMIGRATION/DISPLACED PERSONS Correspondence 4 folders: 1949 15 Correspondence, January - April, 1949 16 Correspondence, May, 1949 17 Correspondence, June, 1949 Box 4 18 Correspondence, July, 1949 and news articles. 19 Correspondence, Articles, 1949, news articles, and publications which include : B AYLOR C OLLECTIONS OF P OLITICAL M ATERIALS U PDATED F ALL, 1992 WACO, T EXAS PAGE 3 GUIDE TO THE PAPERS OF ED LEE GOSSETT FOLDER CONTENTS Arab refugees, a man-made catastrophe. — New York : Institute of Arab American Affairs, March, 1949. 33 p. Should the displaced persons law be liberalized? — America United, Sept. 18, 1949. A Radio Forum conducted by the American Federation of Labor. 16 p. National Community Relations Advisory Council : letter to Emanuel Celler, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee / Lester Gutterman. Immigration Committee, April 29, 1949. mimeographed ; 3 p. Statement before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Bill S. 1705 / by J. H. Meyer. -- Aug. 5, 1949. -- mimeographed ; 9 leaves. Letterhead : Steuben Society of America..."a patriotic organization of American citizens of Germanic extraction". Meditation on Greek immigration / James A. Booras. — Washington : Act Now Committee, [1949?]. -- mimeo-graphed ; legal size ; one leaf. Foreign Minister outlines policy. — Egypt News. -- vol 1, no. 4 (May, 1949) ; p.1. -- Entire issue in file ; 4 p. Memorandum in regard to the exile of the ethnic Germans by the government of Czechoslovakia / from the ethnic Germans of Slovakia. -- mimeographed ; 4 leaves. Who said Promised Land? / by Helena Huntington Smith. — Colliers. -- July 2, 1949 ; p.20f. ; ill. -- Regarding disillusionment of transplanted Europeans in Louisiana. Handwritten quote on top or article reads : "Ungrateful half breed swine..." Great effort being made to increase number of DP's. — Scottish Rite News Bulletin. -- no. 21 (Nov. 5, 1948) ; p.3. -- Washington : Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction, 1948. -- Entire issue in file ; 8 p. Box 5 IMMIGRATION/DISPLACED PERSONS Miscellaneous Publications and Clippings 6 folders: 1947-1949 20 Immigration Data Correspondence, 1947, news articles and publications including : 20 Box 5 Resolutions adopted / by extraordinary American Zionist Conference. -- Washington : the Conference, February 17, 1947. -- mimeographed ; 3 leaves. [List of] countries offering to take displaced persons...as of May 21, 1947. -- Re Stratton Bill (H. R. 210). -- mimeographed, one leaf. Statement for the Standing Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the