final point is a defense of the provision of his bill "putting naturalized citizens on notice that should they join a subversive organization within 5 years after their naturalization. they might have their citizenship revoked by courts on the ground that their oath of allegiance was not taken in good faith." Any way you look at it. this makes naturalization a conditional or secondclass form of citizenship. We think the United States should exercise great care in granting the high privilege of citizenship. Once it has been granted. however. it should constitute full membership in the American society. revocable only on a clear showing of fraudnot on a mere inference drawn from an association which the law does not forbid and into which nativeborn citizens could enter without suffering loss of citizenship. In our judgment. this provision of the Walter bill justifies the adjectives "ugly" and "needless." [From the Washington (D. C.) Post of May 6. 19521
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