Harry Truman actually said...

This provision does not require an evil intent or purpose on the part of the alien, as does a similar provision in the Smith Act.

Veto of the Internal Security Bill.

09/21/1950

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I have done everything I possibly can on that part of that legislation.

No comment. We sent a message which covered the whole situation.

Every male person now or hereafter in the United States who is not a citizen of the United States, other than persons excepted by or pursuan...

Those things have to be done very deliberately. I meant what I said when I said I would pursue the correspondence.