And fast forward to 1952. Hope you don’t mind if I add this.
In 1952, President Truman vetoed the McCarran-Walter Act, which PASSED, despite Truman’s veto.
Here’s a copy of Truman’s commentary on the veto:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~splatsresearch/images/Truman%20Veto%201952.jpg
Under the heading “Alien Births Mentioned” Trumans says:
“Native-born American citizens who are dual nationals would be subjected to loss of citizenship on grounds not applicable to other native-born American citizens. This distinction is a slap at millions of Americans whose fathers were of alien birth.”
We are not taliking here about native born American ctizens, we are talking about natural born American citizens and we would all do well to avoid conflating these very different terms.
