Certainly the least that can be done in codifying a law is to simplify it. However. instead of doing that. in the case of the pending bill the complications of the existing law are greatly aggravated. The next paragraph of the memorandum. from which I began to read a moment ago. is as follows: Section 241 (a) (7) authorizes the deportation of an alien who engages or has a purpose to engage in conduct defined as prejudicial to our. interests or who has a purpose to organize. join. or participate in sub. versive organizations designated by the Attorney General. Lack of knowledge of the subversive character of the organization is a defense only where the alien participation occurred prior to publication of the name of the organization by the Attorney General in the Federal Register. Hence. an alien may be deportable if he had reason to believe that the organization was subversive prior to its designation by the Attorney General. The Attorney General is to be the sole Judge of the reasonableness of the aliens belief. Mr.
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