Note 419 — Chapter V · THE DEPORTATIONS

The testimony and opinion are from Lopez v. Howe, 259 Fed. 401 (C. C. A., 1919). See the opinion of Knox, J., below, quoted in 260 Fed. 485. The facts about the life of Lopez are stated by his counsel, Charles Recht, with additional extracts from his testimony, in American Deportation and Exclusion Laws, Boston, 1919, p. 9. The testimony is also reprinted in 21 New Republic 98 (December 24, 1919). See the letter in 21 New Republic 356 (February 18, 1920), which finds the case so “incredible” that it wrongfully accuses the magazine of withholding utterances by Lopez of an inflammatory nature. The decision in the Federal Reporter expressly rests on philosophical anarchism and denies any advocacy of violence.