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people who said enough things that would indicate that Bridges had had some connection with the Communist part that made it essential to act on it. We followed the usual procedure of preparing a notification to him that a warrant for his arrest and deportation was proper under information which had been given to us, but that he had a right to be heard and that he had a right to know the charges and to make a statement, being represented by counsel. This was the usual notification that was sent to anybody.

Reilly had thought about the method of hearing this with some care. I notice among my notes that there is an outline which he prepared for my approval, laying out the steps we would follow. I'm spending an awful lot of time on procedure, but procedure was what we were challenged on. Those who thought we should have done otherwise thought we should have taken this first statement of Bonham's that he sent in and allowed Bonham to take secret testimony from Milner, and then to deport the alien on the basis of that. You have no idea how many people thought that that should have been done. If you looked over my correspondence on this, you would see that the words “undesirable” and “alien” are always linked together. If any human being said anything undesirable about an alien, he was immediately an “undesirable alien”