Fix

This is an appeal from a judgment of denaturalization. The proceedings and issues are the same as those in the case of Bechtel (Bechtel v. United States, 9 Cir., 176 F.2d 741 ), a general • summary of the district court’s findings is set forth in that court’s opinion. United States v. Holtz, 54 F.Supp. 63 .

Fix was born in Germany.- In 1928, when he was 23, he migrated to the United States. He filed his declaration to become a citizen in 1929, filed his petition for citizenship September 27, 1935, and was admitted to citizenship by an order of the United States District Court at San Francisco on January 6, 1936.

The Government’s case against him disclosed the following facts. Prior to his naturalization Fix attended a few meetings of the German-American Bund, or of its predecessor organization, the Friends of New Germany; but he 'did not join either. In 1937 he made a trip to Germany where he stayed about, six months. On his return to this country, he stated that on this trip he had become sympathetic to the “Party” in Germany, apparently ref erring, to the Nazi party. In 1938 ,he joined'the Bund, but he claimed to have quit it alter about three months. ■

A number of witnesses…