Mr. Speaker. Mr. Joseph Curran. president of the National Maritime Union. has informed me that some remarks made by me in the House when the bill for the deportation of alien seamen. H. R. 2076. was under consideration have been construed as detrimental to American sornear and detracting from or reflecting upon their service. I thank Mr. Curran for giving me that information. A careful perusal of the remarks which I made will. I am sure. disclose that no such implication is warranted. The ship to which I referred as carrying 6.000 American troops. which had such a shortage of men that it was necessary to supply 227 men from the Army. was a foreign ship and not an American ship.
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