Speech #790122840

We paid no attention to Hitlers growls and considered him a sort of a harmless madman. I was not taken in by that view. and felt that something must be done to stem this German propaganda from becoming really dangerous and from overwhelming us as it did the other nations of Europe. As early as the summer of 1933 I called together the members of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization for the purpose of studying ways and means how to prevent the infiltration of alien propaganda to the detriment of the United States. It was as a result of the study undertaken by me that the House passed a resolution organizing the first committee to investigate nazism and other unAmerican activities. and which committee unearthed a veritable mountain of evidence showing the necessity of legislation to prevent. foreign spies and saboteurs to spread the poison of their vicious propaganda. by dividing our people and arraying class against class and faith against faith. brother against brother. and creating racial intolerance. It was then shown for the first time how the insidious poison of racialism becomes the foundation for destruction of our body politi-. and how by using this poison the whole world will be enslaved for the benefit of Hitler and his cohorts.