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come from the Louisiana circuit, from Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, a very learned man, one of the most learned men on the Circuit Court of Appeals, a very distinguished lawyer, a very experienced lawyer, a bona fide Southerner appointed many years before. He'd had a long term of office. His opinion in the Strecker case, which was in every way like every other case in which a person charged with being a Communist had been slated for deportation, was that the conclusion drawn by the immigration officer, Kessler, that Strecker was deportable on account of membership in or affiliation with the Communist party, resting upon the conception that the Communist party taught the overthrow of government by force and violence, was not supportable by the evidence. He therefore remanded the case.

This, of course, was a great blow to those who had prepared evidence in these cases. I asked Shoemaker, who was the counsel who usually prepared these cases, what had been put into the Strecker case as evidence of the Communist party's believing in, teaching and advocating the overthrow of government by force and violence. He said, “The identical package that goes into all of them. In recent years we don't put in as many Communist documents as we used to, because it isn't necessary. We just put in the basic documents and we don't put in every letter that was ever