Speech #820200529

But I have always found that whenever the safety of this Nation was at stake. the men who first rushed to the defense of the country to be the sons. grandsons. and collateral relatives of those brave men who wore the blue and the ones who wore the gray in the War Between the States. I am talking to you Americans now. I am not in favor of tearing down our immigration laws in this country for the elements that are flooding in here now and have been doing so for many years. I say this from experience. No man in this Congress has had more experience in fighting communism than have I. It was my amendment to the rules that created the Committee on UnAmerican Activities as a standing committee of this House. In 1945 they were getting ready to kill or abolish the committee and to destroy all that vast wealth of records that we have that has been of such great value In running down and exposing the Communists who are here trying to undermine and destroy this Government. I think we had better look out for America first. and not open these gates of immigration and flood this country with more undesirables. So far as I am concerned. they can call me an isolationist if they want to. They called George Washington.