Speaker. that if this law is written on the statute books that some man of great influence. someone able to hire highpriced lawyers might. in a starchamber proceeding before some inconsequential official so "arrange" matter that the despicable von Gontard might conveniently relieve himself of his citizenship. thereby escaping his high responsibilities at a time when our distressed country needs the services of its sons more than ever before. Is this bill. Mr. Speaker. a bill for the relief of the Bergdolls. the Washie Bratchers. the von Gontards? If that was what its drafters had in mind. their work could not have been the better done. No one despises the treacherous. cowardly. disloyal Jap more than does the one who now stands before you. No one more earnestly desires the deportation of the disloyal citizen of Japanese origin than does the one who pleads before you this moment. But. Mr.
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