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...Spot of Color. "You have betrayed the hospitality and protection given to you [by Britain] with the grossest treachery . . ." said Lord Goddard, hard-voiced, "your object being to strengthen that creed which then was known to be inimical to all freedom-loving countries . . . You have imperiled the right of asylum which this country has hitherto extended. Dare we now give shelter to political refugees who may be followers of this pernicious creed?-. . . You might have imperiled the good relations between this country and the great American republic with whom His Majesty is allied . . . It is not so much for punishment...
...provoked bitter criticism. Last year, a jury of Fellows in American Letters of the U.S. Library of Congress, including T. S. Eliot, awarded the annual $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the "highest achievement of American poetry" to Ezra Pound (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), who was then in an insane asylum and under indictment for treason (he had spent the war in Italy as propaganda broadcaster for Mussolini). Some critics attacked Eliot as being chiefly responsible for the award, but the jury emphatically denied that Eliot had nominated Pound for the award, or had exerted any influence on his behalf...
...Passed legislation giving permanent asylum in the U.S. to Victor (/ Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, onetime U.S.S.R. engineer and industrialist...
...Rudzinski. But this time he kept on going. He walked out the door of U.N., out the door of the Polish consulate in New York where he was also legal counselor, and out the door of Polish citizenship. Stateless Person Rudzinski appealed to the U.S. for aid and asylum, in the cause of preserving Poland's "independence and initiative . . . in relation to the Soviet delegation...
...Czechs, too, asked the U.S. for asylum. Tall, good-looking Matejcek, 40, brushed off reporters' questions about a "sailing order" said to have been handed to Fried. "Those recall orders," he laughed, "are ludicrous. They don't exist. You get a phone call, are escorted to a plane or ship, never even given your tickets, and that's the last that's ever heard...