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We announced that we would make it accessible and easy. I remember that I w rote to one person and said, “Besides, it'll be nice and cool on Angel Island.”The hearing was to take place in mid-summer.

However, the alien and his lawyers protested it very vigorously, which always led me to believe that one of the things they had intended was a demonstration, which they could have in the city of San Francisco and which they couldn't rig on Angel Island. At the very first hearing that Landis had he promised that he would consider moving the hearings back to the city, after the question had been raised, but he didn't consider it until after the government's case was in.





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