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Change doublets and hose for sweaters and slacks —* swap the Mayflower for the S. S. America — sketch a few skyscrapers in the background — and you’ve got a flair picture of a group of * D.P.’s — Displaced Persons — arriving in 1949 on American soil.
"Attitudes? The same — Thanksgiving for a Safe voyage to a land of freedom and opportunity. Intentions? Identical — to make a home safe from oppression and to help build a great nation.
In 1620 — 1760 — 1848 — as in' 1949, America was enriched
- •'t by the men and women Who stepped ashore with faith in. their hearts and a spark of hope in their eyes. Fresh j^om persecution and tyranny, they have always hungered for the blessings, the dignity and the responsibility of self-government._■ ~ .__
To such people citizenship has ail'ways meant the opportunity to vote wfthodt coercion — to join in civic movements — to serve
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