Word: bans
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Dulles made the offer at a news conference yesterday, but attached these conditions: (1) any such "one-shot experiment" must not be permitted to weaken the government ban on travel by other Americans to the Chinese mainland; and (2) prior approval by "leading figures in the newspaper world" will be necessary before the State Department acts...
...offer will probably be refused by Red China, Worthy thought, since "they will want to get a little more political propaganda out of the situation." Worthy, a reporter on the Baltimore Afro-American, defied the ban on China travel this past winter...
...good chance to make more. Worthy's fight is not entirely with Dulles, for it is too broad to be concentrated on any one man. A foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American and a 1956-57 Nieman Fellow, Worthy declared war on the State Department for its ban on American journalists travelling in Communist China. The war in not a private one anymore, but when Worthy left the United States to visit Red China in December, 1956, he was almost alone in his defiance...
Since he returned to America, where the State Department denied him a new passport, many less forward newspapers and journalists have come to his support. He is still discouraged, however, about the lack of courage displayed by others at the time that Dulles issued the ban...
Since his decision last August banning U.S. newsmen from entering Communist China, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has traveled through and around at least three different reasons why he thinks the ban is necessary and justified. Last week the State Department chafed the American press by reviving, as its justification, Dulles' explanation that the sending of newsmen into Red China would amount to paying blackmail for the release of eight U.S. prisoners there. "We will not let newsmen go while [the Red Chinese] are holding our citizens illegally," Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy told the Senate Foreign Relations...