Mr. FREE. But now they approve the registration of aliens? The CHAIRMAN. While the alien who is on foreign soil may return? Mr. ROBERTS. That works both ways. The CHAIRMAN. We are all together, I think. The problem on that is to devise a workable machinery. I was convinced in my own mind as can be that 90 per cent of the aliens, possibly, in Ellis Island in the United States will find it a help. Only 10 per cent will be afraid of it, and they will be the ones that have reason to be afraid of it; and I would like to state for this record that one can see from these hearings alone the problems before this committee and the difficulty of sifting them down. Mr. ROBERTS. There is no doubt of your problems. The CHAIRMAN. I let this committee sit during the extra session because I could see the work just banking up and banking up and banking up almost beyond the capacity of any committee to sort it out. Each problem ran into another. These other problems, Mr. Dickstein, will go until Monday next. We are very much obliged to you, Mr. Roberts. Who is the next witness? (There was no response.) Mr. SCHNEIDER. This will close the hearings? The CHAIRMAN. Not if we need to open the hearings. (Whereupon, at 4.30 o'clock p. m., the committee went into executive session.) |