If all of those that would be aimed at by the amendment offered by the gentleman from Missouri were in the class of the gentleman to whom the the chairman of the committee refers. of course. there could be but one answer. but I understand. that the attitude of the gentleman from Missouri. and I think he is right in it. is that this amendment is striking at the members of that group on whom the spotlight was thrown by the decision of the Supreme Court in the Joe Strecker case. He raised the point that although he still believed in world revolution. although he still invested every dime of his savings in Russian bonds. although he had been a Communist and still believed in the tenets of communism. yet he had ceased to pay his dues and therefore was not a member of the Communist Party. He had his card and he kept up his dues until about the time he was ordered deported. when he ceased to pay his dues and claimed to have evaded the very pertinent provisions of the statute because of that fact. I believe cases of that kind comprise the far greater number. It is typical.
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Generalizes about immigrants who are communists evading deportation.