Such a person might have failed to register. for instance. because he was afraid that if he did register he would be seized and sent to a concentration camp. and ultimately placed in a gas chamber. Certainly no moral turpitude is involved in either of those socalled crimes. On the other hand. there is no doubt that in either case. if a person had been convicted and sentenced to jail in a country activated by totalitarian considerations. and having a philosophy and standards entirely different from our own. the conviction for such an alleged misdemeanor would. under the provisions of the McCarran bill. constitute grounds other than the ground of moral turpitude. for his exclusion from entry into the United States. I gave as another example of that situation that of a Catholic priest who was teaching religion to a child. contrary to prescribed regulations. for instance. possibly in Czechoslovakia or in Hungary. Conviction of such an alleged crime would constitute a ground for the exclusion of the Catholic priest from admission as an immigrant to the United States. even though not the slightest moral turpitude was involved.
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