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would be prepared for what came up and would be prepared to prepare Foisey, Lapham, or whoever else was in on the negotiations.

There were a number of people who would have been glad to deport Bridges before there was any evidence at all, just on the rumor that he had been a member of the Communist party. One of these was Martin Dies. I think Martin Dies made a speech in the Plaza Hotel in New York at some kind of a meeting. The meeting was a strange meeting. It was a meeting of an organization I never heard of and the strangest people, the queerest looking people, utterly unrecognizable people, attended. I wasn't there, of course, but I had some of our people go to the meeting and they described it. I think this was before we had a ray of evidence on Bridges, before this man from Seattle sent in his affidavit. It was when Martin Dies was denouncing everybody in sight because this Bolshevik Bridges was allowed to be the head of a union out on the Pacific Coast, and besides he was an alien.

Dies, and a great many of that group, associate two words together in their minds- “undesirable” and “alien.” As soon as they say “alien” they say”undesirable.” They think that way - “undesirable alien.” All aliens are undesirable. That an alien should be the head of a