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terrible, impertinent question. I didn't have any time to think, but I just used the old protective device of not having heard perfectly to make him repeat it. You know, nobody ever repeats a scurrilous thing a second time. It's slightly different by the time they say it over again. That's really true.

Hatton Sumners had been on to that. He had realized that I was being extremely polite. I treated Parnell Thomas, whose voice shook when he asked me questions - he trembled he was so angry - with perfect courtesy. There were two or three other members who just shook. One man shouted, “Well, you have given us reasons that I am bound to respect and I recognize that you had an administrative right to do this, but you don't convince me ever that Bridges isn't an undesirable alien and that he oughtn't to be out of this country!!!”

I said, “I don't pretend to pass on that, sir. That question has not yet been before me.”

You see, they were angry. They let themselves get worked up.

At any rate, I asked Hatton Sumners whether I would be there alone. He said, “Yes, ma'am, there won't be anybody there but you.”

Then Reilly telephoned him and said, “After all,