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to be done. I believe really that our lawyers didn't even have a hand in preparing the application for a writ of certiorari, except that they, of course, provided the facts. This was strictly the Attorney General's job. The court granted the writ of certiorari for the review of the case.

This, of course, was what brought down the avalanche upon us for delaying tactics. Even the New York Times, the substantial old New York Times, wrote an editorial in which they said that it wasn't necessary, it wasn't essential that I should ask for a writ of certiorari, that I could have gone ahead with the Bridges case and needn't have held it up on account of the Strecker case. However, I did it. I thought then it was the right thing to do, and I still think it was the right thing to do. I thought it was the better part of wisdom. I thought it was right and proper not to deport people when the court decisions in the different circuits were so varied without a clear knowledge of what the Supreme Court would hold on this matter.

The Supreme Court sustained Hutcheson, but with a terrifically complicated opinion having to do with affiliation, just what affiliation was, and so forth and so on, but not holding that a man couldn't be deported because he was a member of the Communist party. He could