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this point, thinking, as I was, about this fellow in Kentucky. I could think about that in pure theory because I had no duty in the matter at all. It was all over. What was done was done. However, I could not but think rather continuously of the question of clear and present danger in these cases. “What clear and present danger is there?” The immigration law did not nake a member of the Communist party deportable, nor did it spell out a prohibition of the entrance to this country of a member of the Communist party or any other party, but it had written in, among the other items that made an alien deportable, that he believed in, or preached, or taught, or belonged to organizations which were teaching, preaching, and managing a movement for the overthrow of the government by force and violence. So most of the immigration inspectors believed that if they got a Communist, they got a deportable man. That would follow automatically

When I questioned them about what evidence they had that there was any overthrow of the government intended or likely, they rested on this Communist Manifest, and upon some resolution adopted by the Third Internationale, which, they told He was the international organization formed after the Russian revolution, after the Bolshevik revolution rather. I may be wrong about this, and I'm not clear about it. Whatever I'm saying in this respects