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advised by and may have present to support him and assist him certain close friends and nearest of kin. It's always been held in the past that it's not good public policy to make a spectacle of these cases. Many of these immigration and deportation cases are very heart-rending cases where there have been moral lapses, family rows, and so on. It's a public scandal to have all the testimony in public, and of no consequence.

Just as we were about to announce the date and place of the hearing, while Shoemaker had been preparing his statement of facts with which to open the hearing, one morning there dashed into my office, with their eyes open, looking as though they'd seen a ghost, Shoemaker and Shaughnessy, accompanied by Mr. Houghteling and Gerry Reilly. It wasn't in the papers, but they had gotten over some legal wire service some startling information. “What do you think?” said Shaughnessy to me. “We've got a new decision from the courts on this matter of whether a Communist can be deported or not. It completely upsets all our previous thinking and previous action on this classification of cases.”

What he was referring to was the Strecker case, Kessler v. Strecker. Joseph Strecker was the alien and Eugene Kessler was the immigration officer. This had