I endeavored to append an amendment purporting to achieve the same purposes as H. R. 401 aims to do today. At that time my amendment was disallowed on a point of order. but through the procedure of debate on the germaneness it was possible for me to bring to the notice of the House the urgent need of like legislation to provide at the earliest. the Korean conflict continuing. the protection and immunity of the United States uniform to noncitizens who were engaged in that war. For them capture by the North Koreans or Chinese Communists meant certain death or Siberia. because the cloak of protection that our citizenship could provide was not possible expeditiously under the Nationality Act. and the countries from which many of them came to the United States were then and continue to remain within the Communist iron curtain. The gentleman from Pennsylvania . the author of H.
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