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I was ever Secretary of Labor, but it made one pause and think how trifling is the individual commitment to a program of overthrowing the United States government by force and violence for a person who joins something he doesn't know much about down in Kentucky mountains, or anywhere else for that matter.

I discussed this whole business with Wyzanski. “What does all of this mean? What are the basic reasons back of this deportation of persons who are or have been members of the Communist party? What's the basic element? What does Wickersham say? What does Wigmore on Evidence say?” One of the few great law books that I'm familiar with is Wigmore on Evidence. The reason I read that is because when I was a judge on workmen's compensation cases I had to weigh evidence. I went back to Wigmore to read many a time on some small points of how I should judge the evidence and what my liberty of judgment was.

Wyzanski dug up a lot of books, a lot of opinions, a lot of Supreme Court decisions, and such things. He laid it out that the court had followed the Holmes decision that in order to hold that this individual was deportable one had to consider the limitations on free speech and free assembly, free actions of all sorts which are guaranteed by the Constitution, but which have been.