Speech #750145400

I do not believe that the United States will get into any difficulties because one of its citizens goes to a foreign country and participates in its internal affairs. My concern is with citizens who have become naturalized in this country and yet seem to be more interested in the country from which they came than in the country which has given them their living. I believe that is of deep concern to the people of the United States. What I am trying to impress upon the Senator from North Carolina is that when a subject or a citizen of any foreign government comes to the United States of America and becomes a citizen. his feelings or his state of mind. so far as the country of his parentage is concerned. should be set aside and that neutrality should end at the border of the United States. in other words. that the United States should be the first choice of that citizen. But it appears that there are many socalled citizens of the United States who are more concerned as to what is going on in the country from which they came than in the welfare of the country of their adoption wherein they are making a livelihood.