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Chairman. I have never spoken on the question of communism in the House of Representatives since I happened to have been selected as chairman of the House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities and Propaganda in the United States. I rise for the purpose of calling the attention of the Members who are here and to put in the RECORD the fact that Representative BACHMANN. of West Virginia. a member of our committee. has placed on the Clerks desk a bill providing for the exclusion and deportation of alien communists. and I join with him in asking the Members of the House to sign this petition to bring it up for a vote of the House at the earliest possible moment. I do not desire to make any speech on communism until legislation comes before the House. It must be selfevident to the Members that if these alien communists who come here of their own free will and accord to enjoy the equal opportunities afforded in the United States under the protection of our laws do not like our laws. our ways of doing things. our free institutions. and our country. all they have got to do is to go back home [applause]. where they can enjoy the lamentable wage scale and the miserable standards of living and the lack of freedom of speech that they have been accustomed to in the past. But if they insist on remaining here and spreading this doctrine of poison and hatred against our free institutions and our Government and urging the overthrow of our republican form of government by force and violence. then it is clearly the duty of the Congress of the United States to enact laws to deport all alien communists. They are not afraid of our police. our courts. or our jails. The only thing they are afraid of is being deported back home. So I hope the Members will take occasion to sign the petition on the Clerks desk to bring up Representative BACHMANNS bill for a vote in the HouseI do want to take this opportunity to refer to the remarks just made by the gentleman from Washington because I agree with him thoroughly when he refers to a smattering of Protestant ministers in the United States who seem to uphold and commend communism. and to confuse communism of the early Christians. which was a communism of love. based upon the Kingdom of God. with the communism in Soviet Russia. which is a communism of hate. based on hatred of all religious beliefs and on hatred of God. Yet this smattering of Protestant ministers and pinkintellectuals go around the country confusing this issue and saying. "Oh. the communists are only against the old Greek Orthodox Church. which was filled with abuses and evils." But they are not only against that. they are against all religionsProtestant.