wh'le wandering  about   the los  angeles   sports arena   during   the    recent     democrative
convention,  in^addition  to   the Big Medicine    being made  oy the  sur-norter.sof Kr.   Stevenson,   th^re were  several   other group3    with axes  to  grind,   from &xm%£    commercial   advertisement   to  a non-segregsted  group  chanting   something  about   throwing   that   (Jim)   crow
away.     Among   these was a   small  group  passing-circulate    askfcHgXHKSKX     depicting   the
unjust  plight  of  one diamond   Kimm who  is facing deportation.     Readers  of   this  were asked
to  write  to  you,   mr  attorney general,   asking     that   the kimm  deportation order  be
drooped.
on   the basis of  the information   supplied   by  this  circular  and   by  the answers given
by  the passes   to  my  questions,     i   couldnot   by ray personal   judgment,   a3k  that   he  e'ther
be deported  or not   deported.
y
however,   reading  between   the lines of what  i   read  and  what  i   was   told,  i   am inclined
to     think  that   the deportat'on order is  the proper one.
in  the first  place,  kimm's  defense is and  has   been  carried  out   by  the L.   A Committee for
the Protection  of   the Foreign   3orh,   an  organization,   which,  if my memory is  correct,   has
been identified  as  a  communist   run organization.     Second,   amid   the rather glutinous
replies   to my questions,   cam forth  the idea   that Mr Kimm had  come from raexico.     3' nee
K&  the reason for  holding  the deportation hearings    hk»x      arenot  given,     this  circiim
stance suggests   that he may have entered   this  country illegally.     And  it  has  com  to my
attention   that     the mexican  border is one of   the favorite areas of ingress and   exit for
communist  agents.
Now ror
Now thi3  booklet i-s  entitled Patriot faces  EXILE, ,   and   his  record   as  a member  of   the
033 is  adduced  as proof of his  being presumably an  american oatriot.     "owver,   we all
know  that   the younger and m re adventurous communists,   once  the war  changed from' an
imperialist war  to   the war in  defense of  ru3sia,   established good     records.
A portion of Justice Douglas's    dissenting is  quoted,  in  which  the Justice notes   t'^st
he has  a non-criminal   record,   and   that   there is no   evidence  that   he was  a  communist*
♦ ..He    assumes   "that in/vocation  of  the
and   that   there is  no   evidence  that  he is  a  communist,   other   than   that   apparently
de    deduced  by  the majority Justices in  his invocation of  the Fifth  Amendment  when
asked  whether he was or  ever  had   been a  communist.
Justice Douglas  assumes  "tha^t  invocation  of   the privilege is  a  neutral   act,   as  consistent
with innocence as  with guilt."    I     can   see why  some legal  minds would   so  construe  the
"invocation"  but   to   the non-legal  mind      I  know  that  many  legal minds   so interpret  the
"invocation"  but   to  me,  invoking   the fifthamendraent       invoking  a privilege against   self-
incrimination is a  clear implication of guilt,  although I   readily concede that   such
an implication would not  constitute  evidence for prosecution of a  crime.