Fascists. and Communists from their faculty. This would have struck a telling blow at the Communist conspiracy. After my bill to deport and exclude Communist aliens was stymied in the Senate. instructions went forth to all Communist aliens to become naturalized. Therefore. in the committees report dated January 3. 1941. we recommended as follows: We recommend that the statutory period during which citizenship papers can be revoked under existing law be extended to at least 10 years. If this recommendation had been followed. our Government could have revoked the citizenship papers of Nazis. Fascists. and Communists and deported at least 90 percent of them. A contributing cause to the growth of the Communist conspiracy in the United States was the ease with which Communist agents were able to travel to and from the United States. In its report dated January 3. 1945. the committee recommended: Due to the fact that the committee has discovered that many members of foreigncontrolled organizations have traveled on American passports which have been fraudulently obtained. the committee feels that the statute of limitations should be extended from 3 to 7 years.
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