Speech #730162359

I do not think you will vote against the adoption of this resolution. This special investigating committee should seek to accomplish three primary objects: First. ascertain the facts about methods of introduction into this country of destructive. subversive propaganda originating from foreign countries. second. ascertain facts about organizations in this country that seem to be cooperating to spread this alien propaganda through their membership in this country. third. study and recommend to the House appropriate legislation which may correct existing facts and tend to prevent the recurrence of a similar condition in the future. The informal and unofficial investigation conducted by a Subcommittee of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization brought to the surface many features of importance about the spreading of subversive propaganda and about how that propaganda material gets here from abroad. Without authority or funds to subpena witnesses. to take testimony from witnesses under oath. or to pay necessary expenses to properly ferret out all of the facts. the subcommittee secured by voluntary testimony from witnesses willing to testify enough material to engage the serious attention of the special committee authorized by House Resolution 198 for some time. Among the more important of the alleged facts developed by the informal investigation.