Word: boudin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pygmalion Treatment. To his mounting horror, Sir Percy learns that Lady L. was born Annette Boudin, the daughter of a Paris washerwoman. In due course, like most of the girls of her street, she became a prostitute. But she was beautiful, and soon the top banana of French anarchists. Armand Denis, gave her the Pygmalion treatment. He made a lady of her so that she could play with the very rich and arrange burglaries to finance Armand's assassination plans for the good of humanity...
Complaining of "unusual procedures" used by the State Department in passport decisions, Boudin cited several instances in which case hearings were held without notifying the applicant or his attorney...
...State Department uses the passport system as a means of punishing those who hold a minority point of view in political affairs, Leonard Boudin, specialist in passport law, stated at the Harvard Liberal Union forum last night...
...Boudin, who was himself temporarily refused a passport in 1954, claimed passport denial is a method of punishing men for beliefs they held long before the passport laws were passed...
According to Boudin, there are "three classes of United States citizens who cannot get passports: those who are Communist party members, those going abroad to aid the 'Communist movement,' and those considered by the State department to be acting under the influence or direction of the Communist party through the years, though not actually members...