CONVICTED OF DESERTION WHILE THE

UNITED STATES WAS AT WAR

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXCLUSION FROM THE
UNITED STATES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED
OF DESERTION FROM THE MILITARY OR NAVAL
FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES WHILE

THE UNITED STATES WAS AT WAR

MAY 24, 1939

Printed for the use of the Committee on Military Affairs

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 1939

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COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS

MORRIS SHEPPARD, Texas, Chairman M. M. LOGAN, Kentucky

WARREN R. AUSTIN, Vermont ROBERT R. REYNOLDS, North Carolina GERALD P, NYE, North Dakota ELBERT D. THOMAS, Utah

STYLES BRIDGES, New Hampshire SHERMAN MINTON, Indiana

CHAN GURNEY, South Dakota
EDWIN C. JOHNSON, Colorado

RUFUS C. HOLMAN, Oregon
JOSH LEE, Oklahoma
H. H. SCHWARTZ, Wyoming
ERNEST LUNDEEN, Minnesota
LISTER HILL, Alabama
SHERIDAN DOWNEY, California
JAMES M. SLATTERY, Illinois

VICTOR RUSSELL, Clerk
WALTER I. SMALLEY, A88istant Clerk