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and should have been kicked out. The most extraordinary passion comes over American people, many of whom are them-selves the children and grandchildren of immigrants, if what they call a foreigner is accused of anything, whether he's guilty or not, no matter what his business is. He just ought to go out on his ear. It's a curious exclusiveness that one would never have supposed the American people had. We certainly are not built up exclusively. We are descended from just the odds and ends of anybody who came here. I speak with great admiration of my ancestors, as all other Americans ought to, but all kinds of people came here. That's what we're descended from. But we're very exclusive when it comes to those who have arrived within the last fifty years. You get that passion in the expression of people that “undesirable aliens” ought to be put right out on their ears.

So that's why I speak of the procedure. It was for that that we were later criticized. These letters I have speak of the “prolonged laxity,” the “prolonged proceedings,” the “unbelievable laxity,” and all that sort of thing. So it seemed unusually essential that we should proceed with care in this case because of the fact that he was a newly emerged labor leader, because he was operating on the Pacific Coast where there was such a