Speech #830100516

Even so. the other .56 of 1 percent would amount to a total of 1.344 subversives whose sole objective would be to undermine the internal security of our Nation. Assuming that these subversives are equally divided among the 48 States. this would niean that 28 Communist agents would be planted in every State of our Union. Think of the untold damage they could do before they could be apprehended and deported. and think also of what it would cost our national. State and local governments to seize them. prosecute them. and de-. port them to their native country. Commonsense. good judgment. and past experience will demonstrate that this estimate is altogether unrealistic. Only recently. the Attorney General of the United States. Hon. Herbert Brownell. stated that over 10.000 naturalized citizens in this country -were being investigated and that an additional 12.000 aliens residing in this country were under investigation and consideration for deportation. Moreover. as recently as July 12. 1953. the Senate Judiciary Committee released a report which esti.mated that 40 percent of the refugees and escapees from behind the Iron Curtain are either Communists or convicted criminals. Assuming that calculation to be true. this would mean that under this legislation approximately 2.000 subversives and undesirables would go into every State of the United States. But again. giving the optimists the benefit of the doubt. let us suppose once more that 99.44 percent of these immigrants would be antiCommunist. Where. then. is the logic that these people should be uprooted from Europe and transported to America? This country has spent billions of dollars in an effort to increase the number of antiCommunists both inside and outside of the Iron Curtain in Europe and Asia.