Speech #760037426

This legislation. as proposed by Senator REYNOLDS. provides for the mandatory registration and fingerprinting of every alien now in the United States or who may hereafter apply for permission to enter the United States. The objective of the proposed legislation is the strengthening of our national defense. It also provides for the deportation of every alien or group of aliens whose presence or activities are inimical to the public welfare of the United States. Certainly. when the American people are confronted with the daring and dangerous activities of aliens or alienminded people. in the spreading of foreign propaganda. it is only just and fitting that this august body should give an expression of confidence and admiration to the Senator from North Carolina for his patriotic and inspiring legislation. to the end that the philosophy of Washington. Jefferson. and Lincoln shall never be replaced by the philosophy of communism. fascism or naziism. There is a school of thought that to curb the activities of these propagandists would be to deprive them of the right of free speech and the freedom of assembly. My answer to this is that the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights appended thereto was written for the protection of Americans and American institutions and not for foreign powers or their subjects. Should an alien desire to become a naturalized American citizen there are certain definite requirements which he must comply with. the most important makes it mandatory that he must renounce all bonds of allegiance to his native country. I submit. therefore. that the demonstration by the GermanAmerican Bund in the city of New York. where members were clothed In the uniform of the Nazi storm troopers. wearing arm bands on which were displayed the symbol of naziism. the swastika. giving the Nazi salute. and having the audacity to compare Hitler with the Father of Our County. have not renounced their allegiance to their native lands and are not entitled to the privileges and liberties as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America. Because of such daring activities we must assert ourselves against these subversive interests.