Speech #890011217

The committee apparently believes that it was wrong to permit Professor Yasui to come into and address audiences in this country. It may have been annoyed by the fact that the State Department and the Attorney General agreed with these private citizens and not with the committeewe presume that the State Department and the Attorney General were not endorsing the views of Professor Yasui but were instead endorsing the traditional American view that American citizens have the right to hear and discuss any lawful ideas. The fact is that the Immigration and Nationality Act was properly administered by these agencies. and that the appropriate congressional committee had no objection to the manner in which the act was applied. Obviously the admission of Professor Yasui called for no corrective legislation or action by Congress. Disapproval. disagreement. and/or annoyance with the actions of these three witnesses and the Departments of Justice and State in connection with the Yasu visit to our country certainly do not provide any proper basis for UnAmerican Activities Committees action in this case.