Word: heikkila
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...home at quitting time, Finnish-born William Heikkila, 52. found two men waiting for him outside the offices of the San Francisco engineering firm where he worked as a draftsman. One flashed a badge. "Call my wife," Heikkila yelled to a fellow worker. "Tell her Immigration has picked...
...frustrating years, District Director Bruce Barber, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's chief in San Francisco, had been waiting for a chance to deport sometime Communist Heikkila to Finland. Under the law, he seemed to be clearly deportable. His Finnish parents had brought him to the U.S. when he was three months old, but he had never become a U.S. citizen. And by his own admission, he was an active Communist Party member...
...soon as Heikkila had arrived in Finland--suitcase-less and clad in a summer suit--Gen. Swing, faced with a contempt citation, ordered him to be flown back...
Swing has maintained a tone of righteous indignation; "When a Jap was captured, did we say 'Go home and kiss your wife good-bye'?" Heikkila will be deported "if it takes from now until I get kicked out." And Representative Walter and his subcommittee, who are investigating the incident, appear more concerned about Swing's tactics as capital for Communist propaganda and adverse publicity for the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, than about the morality of the tactics themselves...
...Immigration Commission attempts to manipulate Heikkila like a puppet have two unattractive aspects. It appears that the judiciary is the only branch of government left with a real concern for individual rights and for due process. And if Swing's spleen and Walter's wrist-slapping are any index of the nation's government, we are in a very bad way indeed...