Speaker. in the Supreme Court decision. Communist Party against Subversive Activities Control Board. 1961. it says: When existing government is menaced by a worldwide integrated movement which employs every combination of possible means. peaceful and violent. domestic and foreign. overt and clandestine. to destroy the government itselfthe legislative judgment as to how that threat may best be met consistently with the safeguarding of personal freedom is not to be set aside merely because the judgment of judges would. in the first instances. have chosen other methods. Two recent cases involving the travel to the United States of noncitizens known to espouse Communist doctrines have attracted a great deal of attention. The most widely known was the case of Bernadette Devlin. Miss Devlin is a selfprofessed "true Communist" who probably could have been denied admission to the United States under section 221(a) (28) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. better known as the McCarran Act. This section of the act states that aliens who are anarchists. or affiliated with any Communist Party. or who "advocate the economic. international. and governmental doctrines of World Communism or the establishment in the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship." are ineligible to receive visas to enter the United States. During her stay in the United States. Miss Devlin railed against our way of life and threw whatever weight she has behind the causes of people such as Angela Davis.
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