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the immigration officers had accepted the idea that the Communist party probably did. They had deported other people at earlier times for being members of the Communist party. That had been done before. This wasn't the first case. The evidence that the Communist party taught the overthrow of the government by force and violence, and was engaged in attempting to overthrow the government by force and violence, was proved in all of the cases in which they had deported a man and he had appealed by the introduction into evidence of the Communist Manifesto written by Marx and Engels in the late 1840s. That was introduced as evidence. At this moment I don't recall what the words of the Communist Msnifesto are, but in the course of this and other cases the immigration authorities had a copy of it and had marked out the section that in their opinion, and they had been supported in this opinion by lawyers and in some cases by judges, did establish that the Communist party, or anyone calling himself a member of it, was engaged in the overthrow of the government by force and violence. Of course, that's a very difficult point in itself.

At any rate, I had this interview with this man. I was somewhat concerned about it. It was a very difficult situation, particularly because Bridges was an active