Mr. LIEBELER. You are a native-born American, aren't you, Mr. Ray?
Mr. LIEBELER. You are married to Natalie Ray, is that correct?
Mr. LIEBELER. And your wife is a native of Russia; is that right?
Mr. LIEBELER. Would you tell us briefly the circumstances under which you met and married your wife?
Mr. RAY. Well, I was stationed in Wiesbaden and as you probably already know there were a lot of displaced persons over there, and the army used these displaced persons for various duties, you know, kitchen work and things like that and I met her there during the time that she and some other girls came to work for our outfit. All we had to do was go get them, you know, feed them and transport them back and forth and feed them and that's where I met her, in Wiesbaden.
Mr. LIEBELER. Then you were subsequently married and you brought her back to the United States; is that correct?
Mr. RAY. Yes, sir; after a length of time during which I was later discharged there and worked for the U.S. Force headquarters in Frankfurt.
(At this point in the hearing, Mr. Robert T. Davis, assistant attorney general of Texas leaves the room.)
Mr. RAY. [continuing]. I was employed there about, well, I think actually I was on the payroll until they sent me back to New York which would have been 16, 17 months, I think.
Mr. LIEBELER. You were employed as a civilian is that correct?
Mr. RAY. Civilian employee of the Government.
Mr. LIEBELER. Were you an officer or enlisted man; what was your rank when you met your wife?
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you incur any difficulty when you tried to marry your wife when you were in Germany?
Mr. RAY. At various times it looked like we were running into stumps but we got over them. At times it looked like they were going to send all the Russian nationals back to Russia and I even made a trip to Paris, France, once to try to talk to the Russian Embassy there and never got to see him. I think along about that time the Government stepped in and kind of protected these people that did not want to go back, you know, and things kind of let up then and we were left about our business for awhile; there after the war, they were trying to get all the Russian nationals back.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did your wife have to obtain the permission of Russian authorities before she could marry you?