Speech #760233924

With the help of this administration we will bring you in a bill. first. that will outlaw the GermanAmerican Bund. the Communist Party. and 6ther organizations which the committee has found to be agents of foreign governments. That is the first thing we can do. The next thing we can do is to prevent the admission of foreign agents under the guise of refugees. We have information of foreign agents operating in the United States who came in under the guise of refugees. We can put a stop to the laxity that has characterized our enforcement of existing immigration and deportation laws. We can do this with no hardship to those who are loyal and deserving. but certainly it is a disgraceful spectacle that here is an organization such as the GermanAmerican Bund with 90 percent of its members naturalized since the World War. many of whom are veterans of the German Army. Yet they come to the United States and receive their naturalization papers. and notwithstanding that fact. they salute the swastika and goosestep with all of the admiration for Hitler that they would have if they resided in Germany. I refer to organizations like the GermanAmerican Alliance. with 300.000 members. so they claim. and organizations like the Communist Party. According to the confidential reports of the Communist Party of California. more than half of the membership were born in a foreign country.