After all. this is a committee of the House of Representatives. and all of us owe a duty to this House as well as to the country at large. a duty which must be discharged in an honest. straightforward. and patriotic manner. and I have no fear that a few suggestions might go a long way toward the achievement of that object. It is unnecessary for me to tell you in detail as to my particular reasons for being so vitally concerned in the success of the committees work. After all. the committee is my brain child and far back in 1933..when most of the Members of this House did not even know or suspect the existence of foreign propaganda. it was I. as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. together with eight members of that Committee. who undertook to make a thorough study of this situation. After holding hearings during the recess of Congress. we obtained enough evidence to focus the attention of the country upon the existing menace of foreign propaganda. It was only after earnest pleading with the Members of the House that I finally succeeded. on March 20. 1934. in obtaining the appointment of a committee to investigate subversive propaganda in the United States.
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