Mr. Roosevelt and I had been in Washington in 1918 and were familiar with the scandals arising out of the seizure of such properties in World War I. which had as a sequel the imprisonment of the then custodian. The President wished to avoid a repetition of this episode. and also wished to avoid any criticism that his administration would treat harshly aliens who had spent most of their lives in this country but had never been naturalized. He laughed when I told him that I would prefer to see the Alien Property Office located on the Triangle on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the District Building with its walls made of glass so that its employees and the lobbyists would be always under the eyes of the public. When he asked me to suggest a man to put in charge.
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