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Holiness Church:

National Holiness Missionary Society, Rev. George R. Warner, 733 North Parlside Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Pilgrim Holiness Church, Rev. Paul W. Thomas, 1609 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, Ind.

Laymen's Missionary Movement:

Laymen's Missionary Movement, Mr. F. J. Michel, South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill.

Lepers:

American Mission to Lepers, Inc., Rev. E. R. Kellersberger, D. D., 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Lutheran:

Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod, Rev. S. Hjalmar Swanson, 415 Harvard Street SE., Minneapolis, Minn.

Lutheran Board of Missions (Foreign Mission Board of the Lutheran Free Church), Prof. Andreas Helland, Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis, Minn. Board of Foreign Missions of the American Lutheran Church, Rev. Richard Taeuber, secretary; Rev. F. Braun, D. D., financial secretary, 57 East Main Street, Columbus, Ohio.

Women's Missionary Federation, American Lutheran Church, Miss Katherine Lehmann, 57 East Main Street, Columbus, Ohio.

Board of Foreign Missiions of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, Rev. J. E. Gronli, 425 South Fourth Street, Minneapolis, Minn.

The Board of Foreign Missions, United Lutheran Church in America, Rev. M. Edwin Thomas, D. D., Rev. Edwin Moll, D. D., Rev. J. Roy Strock, D. D., 18 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Md.

Women's Missionary Society, United Lutheran Church in America, Miss Nona M. Diehl, 717 Muhlenberg Building, Philadelphia, Pa. McCall Association:

American McAll Association (Mission populaire Evangelique de France), Mrs. James C. Colgate, 122 East Twenty-second Street, New York, N. Y. Mennonite:

The General Conference, Mennonite Board of Foreign Missions of North America, Rev. P. H. Richert, Newton, Kans.

Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities, Bishop J. D. Grabee, 1711 Prairie Street, Elkhart, Ind.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Pennsylvania Conference of the Mennonite Brethern in Christ, Rev. C. H. Brunner, 25 South Third Street, Quakertown, Pa.

United Missionary Society of Mennonite Brethern in Christ, Rev. R. P. Ditmer, 506 South Arlington Avenue, Springfield, Ohio.

Methodist:

Board of Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Church:

Division of Foreign Missions, Rev. Ralph E. Diffendorfer, D. D., 150
Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Woman's Division of Christian Service, Mrs. Otis Moore, Miss Sallie
Lou MacKinnon, Miss Lucile Colony, Miss Louise Robinson, Miss
Elizabeth M. Lee, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Home and foreign_missionary department of African Methodist Episcopal
Church, Rev. L. L. Berry, D. D., 112 West 120th Street, New York, N. Y.
Woman's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Mrs.
Christine S. Smith, 716 South Nineteenth Street, Room 402, Philadelphia,
Pa.

Foreign Mission Board of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Rev. H. T. Medford, D. D., 1421 U Street NW., Washington, D. C. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, African Methodist Fpiscopal Zion Church, Mrs. Abbie Clement Jackson, 2303 West Chestnut Street, Louisville, Ky.

General Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church of North America, Rev. Byron S. Lamson, Winona Lake, Ind.

Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection in America, Rev. F. R. Birch, 208 Woodlawn Avenue, Jersey City, N. J.

Missionary Bands of the World:

Missionary Bands of the World, Miss Esther E. Rickabaugh, 101 Alton Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.

Missionary education:

Missionary Education Movement, Mr. Franklin D. Cogswell, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Moravian:

Moravian Board (Society of the United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen), Rev. S. H. Gapp, Ph. D., D. D., president, 67 West Church Street, Bethlehem, Pa.

Nazarene:

The General Board of the Church of the Nazarene, Foreign Missions Department, Rev. C. Warren Jones, 2923 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Pentecostal:

Foreign Mission Department, General Council of the Assemblies of God, Rev. Noel Perkin, 336 West Pacific Street, Springfield, Mo.

Presbyterian:

Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Rev. Charles T. Leber, Ď. D., 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Rev. C. Darby Fulton, D. D., Post Office Box 330, Nashville, Tenn., 113 Sixteenth Avenue South.

Committee on Woman's Work, Presbyterian Church in the United States, Miss Janie W. McGaughey, Henry Grady Building, Atlanta, Ga.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Rev. E. Gettys, Due West, S. C.

Board of Foreign Missions, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Mrs. Bertha Luck Cook, 117 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, Tenn.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Rev. Findley M. Wilson, D. D., 2410 North Marshall Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, Rev. Glenn P. Reed, D. D., 1505 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Women's General Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, Mrs. A. J. Randles, 904-908 Publication Building, 209 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Reformed:

Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America, F. M. Potter, L. H. D., 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in America, Miss Ruth Ransom, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Christian Reformed Board of Missions, Rev. John C. DeKorne, Ph. D., 543 Eastern Avenue SE., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Saint Christopher's:

American Section of the Governing Board of Saint Christopher's Training College, Inc., Madras, India, Mrs. Otis Moore, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Scandinavian Evangelical:

Scandinavian Alliance Mission of North America, Rev. T. J. Bach, 2839 McLean Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

Evangelical Mission Covenant of America, Rev. Ralph P. Hanson, 1005 Belmont Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

Schwenkfelder:

Home and Foreign Board of the Schwenkfelder Church in the United States of America, Rev. H. K. Heebner, 2509 North Thirtieth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Student Volunteer Movement:

Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Mr. Winburn T. Thomas, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students, Dr. Louis Wolferz, 347 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Sunday School Association, World's:

World's Sunday School Association, Rev. Forrest L. Knapp, Ph. D., 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Tract Society:

American Tract Society, Rev. T. Christie Innes, 21 West Forty-sixth Street, New York, N. Y.

Universalist:

Universalist International Church Extension Board, Miss Esther A. Richardson, 16 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

The Association of Universalist Women, Miss Ida M. Folsom, 16 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

Yale-in-China Association, Inc.:

Yale-in-China Association, Inc., Miss Rachel A. Dowd, 905A Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.

Arthur O. Rinden, Executive Secretary, 905A Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.

Young Men's Christian Association:

International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations, Mr. Frank V. Slack, 347 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.

National Council of Student Christian Associations, Mr. R. H. Edwin Espy, 347 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Young Women's Christian Association:

National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, Foreign Division, Miss Margaret Forsyth, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y.

National Student Council, Young Women's Christian Associations, Miss Eleanor French, 600 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Boards and societies which are not constitutional members but have an affiliated relationship:

Foreign Missionary Society of the Brethren Church, Rev. Louis S. Bauman, D. D., 1925 East Fifth Street, Long Beach, Calif.

Ceylon and India General Mission, Miss Emma MacNaughtan, 128 South Lombard Avenue, Oak Park, Ill.

Christian Missions in Many Lands; MR. CHARLES BELLINGER, 75 Maiden Lane, New York City; REV. RICHARD HILL, Glen Cove, N. Y.

Church of God (Holiness) Foreign Missionary Department, REV. F. B. WHISLER, Post Office Box 191, Mission, Kans.

Board of Missions, California Yearly Meeting of Friends Church, MR. MERRILL M. COFFIN, Box 508, Ramona, San Diego County, Calif.

South America Indian Mission, Inc., REV. JOSEPH A. DAVIS, Box 147, West Palm Beach, Fla.

Lingnan University (Canton Christian College), MR. OLIN D. WANNAMAKER, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, REV. FREDERICK BRAND, D.D., 3558 South Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.

Board of Missions of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren, Mr. M. J. QUARUM, Fergus Falls, Minn.

Lutheran Orient Mission Society, REV. ALFRED K. BOERGER, 129 Eaton
Avenue, Hamilton, Ohio.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Conference of the Mennonite Brethren
Church of North America, REV. H. W. LOHRENZ, Hillsboro, Kans.
China Mennonite Mission Society, MR. J. P. BALTZIR, Hillsboro, Kans.
Congo Inland Mission (Mennonites), REV. C. E. REDIGER, 1326 West
Seventy-second Street, Chicago, Ill.

Missionary Medical School for Women, Vellore, South India, MRS. PHILIP
M. ROSSMAN, 318 West Eighty-fourth Street, New York, N. Y.
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, REV. THOS. W. JONES, 223 Austin
Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North
America, General Synod ("New Light Covenanters"), REV. WILLIAM
P. GREEN, 96 Chester Pike, Collingdale, Pa.

Sudan Interior Mission, REV. J. O. CERCY, Acting Secretary, 164 West Seventy-fourth Street, New York, N. Y.

United Free Gospel and Missionary Society, MR. F. J. CASLEY, 385 Larimer Avenue, Turtle Creek, Pa.

Women's Christian College, Madras, India, MRS. NATHAN R. WOOD, 26 Academy Street, Arlington, Mass.

Women's Union Missionary Society of America, MISS DOROTHY STRONG, 316 Bible House, Astor Place, New York, N. Y.

World's Christian Endeavor Union, MR. STANLEY B. VANDERSALL, 41 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Mass.

On April 11, 1944 the executive committee, acting on behalf of the full India Committee, voted

To record our deep concern that discrimination against citizenship of Eastern Hemisphere Indians of India be removed.

The executive committee also voted

To collaborate with the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America on plans for a joint effort to secure favorable consideration of bills designed to admit Indians to the United States on a quota basis and to citizenship privileges.

In accordance with the above actions of the India Executive Committee, a communication was addressed to the boards related to the India Committee, asking for an expression either of board action or personal conviction on this matter on the part of executive officers of boards. No unfavorable replies were received. Many expressions from executive officers of boards favorable to such bills as the LuceCeller bills were received in addition to certain official board actions. A list of those supplying supporting actions and expressions of personal conviction were given in the statement brought here yesterday by Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk.

I should like, Mr. Chairman, if I may, to comment on this list, in interpretation of it. I think it is worthy of note that the 7 bodies which took formal action represent approximately 22,000,000 church members in this country, and that the 19 other foreign boards and the 17 church councils represent a constituency that adds up to a very sizable figure of the total Protestant church membership of approximately 40,000,000 people in this country.

I should like also, if I may, to make two other comments. One is in regard to possible omissions of certain denominations from the list. I believe the question was raised by one of the committee members after the session yesterday, saying that there was no mention of his particular denomination. Well, may I say this, that only those denominations were asked to comment who have work in India, and this particular denomination does not have work in India. And that may be true of others. Therefore omission of any particular denomination from this list does not necessarily mean an unfavorable attitude on the part of that denomination.

I should like also to call your attention to the fact that the 26 foreign mission boards that have expressed their opinion here, represent those who have spent many years of their lives in India. And therefore, their opinion is not merely, we might say, an abstract opinion in favor of justice or racial equality, but it is the opinion of those who believe that the application of that principle will bring enrichment, rather than the opposite, to American life. Those who have lived among the Indian people for enough years to know them intimately are able to make this statement based upon their knowledge of the people.

Reasons why the India Committee of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America supports the proposed legislation.

I should like to read our reasons, Mr. Chairman, and have the privilege of commenting a bit upon them.

The CHAIRMAN. Proceed, Miss Weddell.

Miss WEDDELL. First, and this is basic and fundamental: As church leaders we believe that all men are equal before God and that racial discriminations should not be embodied in our laws. Here we are reemphasizing the Federal Council's views, expressed yesterday by Dr. Van Kirk.

There are other reasons, supplementary, possibly less important but we bring them, and they have all been expressed here. They

were practically all expressed here yesterday. I bring them again, however, because we believe them, and because we have a special angle of approach.

We believe that by reason of her effective war effort India has earned the consideration recommended by this legislation.

May I call your attention to page 3 of this blue report, Mr. Chairman, in which you will find a tabulation of India's war effort. I think it would be well for this to be incorporated in the record.

The CHAIRMAN. You just want page 3 incorporated in the record? Miss WEDDELL. It is the appendix, Mr. Chairman. It is the third and forth pages of this report.

The CHAIRMAN. All right. Without objection it will be incorporated.

(The appendix follows:)

APPENDIX TO STATEMENT REGARDING RELATION OF IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION LAWS TO EASTERN HEMISPHERE INDIANS OF INDIA

(Made on March 7, 1945, before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization in support of the Luce-Celler bills, by representatives of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America)

I. INDIA'S WAR EFFORT

1. A volunteer army of two and a half million men * * * the largest volunteer army ever raised, which has given a good account of itself in north Africa, Italy, and the Burma fronts.

2. A growing and efficient air force serving on the Burma front.

3. The Indian Navy which has been in action all over the seven seas, and which has been described by Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck as a "most valuable and efficient fighting force." The general goes on to say of this navy: "In the battle of the Atlantic, our ships helped escort convoys as far north as Iceland. In the Mediterranean they were present during the landings in Sicily. In the Red Sea they played a part in putting an end to Mussolini's east African empire. In the Persian Gulf they helped defeat the Nazi sympathizers in Iran. Further east they have been in action against the Japanese in the Sunda Straits and the Java Sea, and they helped in the evacuation of Malaya and Burma. Ranging over a wide expanse of the Indian Ocean the ships of the Indian Navy have fought the menace of the Axis."

4. Indian railways have taken an increasingly heavy burden in meeting the menace of Japan by carrying thousands of tons of military equipment and stores which had been shipped from America and Britian to be flown "over the hump" to China. They have gone "all out" to meet the needs of the troops in the defense of India, and are contributing their share to the defeat of the Japanese in Burma, and their total elimination from that area.

5. India is the arsenal of the United Nations in Asia. factories have greatly expanded their number and output.

In this capacity Indian

(a) India has erected a floating dock which ranks among the largest in the world.

(b) India produces 10,000 tons a month of structural steel, armored vehicles using indigenous armor plate, bolts, nuts and rivets, steel castings, dry cells and batteries, parachutes, shells, cartridges, and rifles. The clothing factories are supplying 7,000,000 items a month which are supplied to prisoners of war, Chinese troops, and the United States forces in Indiain addition to the needs of the Indian Army itself.

(c) India supplies rubber for the war effort. New plants for the manufacture of tires, respirators, hose, footwear, etc.

6. India's reciprocal aid to the United States under Lend-Lease to the end of 1944-45 is reported to be a total of 81 crores of rupees or about $270,000,000. This reciprocal aid to United States forces in India is in three main forms:

1. Rations, clothing, ordnance, and other stores, the construction of accommodation for troops, airfields, and connected works; and the provision of transportation, communications, and the maintenance of facilities of various kinds.

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