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Harry Truman: They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.

On the recordOctober 12, 1948
They favor the admission of displaced persons--but only within shameful racial and religious limitations.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address in St. Paul at the Municipal Auditorium

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