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...only immediate effects of the nation's new anti-Communist law were the indignant yelps from the Reds themselves. Manhattan's Daily Worker trumpeted their defiance: they would simply not comply with the McCarran law's provision that all Communists must register. They had 30 days from Sept. 23 to change their minds.* After that, under the law, the Department of Justice would have to get to work, start hauling non-registered Communists before a subversive activities board...
...Under a local "little McCarran" law, Communists living in or passing through New Rochelle, N.Y. were ordered to register by midnight, Sept. 28. Midnight passed in suburban New Rochelle with only one registration: an elderly, civic-minded Republican who thought the regulation was for "commuters...
...week Congress had been tapping its foot, waiting for the President's veto of the McCarran anti-Communist bill. In the House, when the page boys burst in with mimeographed copies of the message, members grabbed eagerly at the bundles, helped pass them out. With little more than a glance, they began shouting: "Vote! Vote!" And minutes after the clerk had intoned Harry Truman's 5,500 words of warning, they had overridden the veto without a word of debate, by a thumping...
When the Mundt-Ferguson-Johnston bill was first brought up in the Senate, it seemed difficult to conceive of a measure that could be more loosely-drawn or more dangerous. But the connivance of Senators McCarran and Kilgore and other eager helpers in both branches of the legislature, converted it into just that. The original security measures requested by the President are in the new bill, but they have been submerged in a flood of provisions that would, according to Mr. Truman's veto message, endanger civil liberties and interfere with the genuine security activities of the Government...
Elliott objected strongly to those portions of the omnibus bill which were originally contained in the McCarran bull: "It reiterates and strengthens those barriers to immigration of anyone who has ever been a Communist, and in so doing, keeps out of the country some of those who are strongly anti-Communist and our greatest friends in this matter...