Bridges

This is an action instituted’ by the United States against Harry Renton Bridges. The complaint seeks to cancel a decree of naturalization obtained by Bridges in 1945, on the grounds (1) that Bridges illegally procured a decree and certificate of naturalization in that in the period of ten years preceding the filing of his petition for naturalization he had been, and at the time of his naturalization he was, a member of and affiliated with an organization which advised and taught the overthrow by violence of the government of the United States and that Bridges believed in and supported the principles of said organization (the-Communist Party), and (2) that said decree and certificate of naturalization were fraudulently procured in that Bridges concealed his alleged membership in the Communist Party from the Court hearing the naturalization petition by falsely representing to said Court that he had not been affiliated with and had not been a member of said organization at any time.

On the same day this petition was filed (May 25, 1949), the Grand Jury indicted Bridges for (1) conspiring with others to secure Bridges’ naturalization by fraudulently representing that he had never…