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Portugal doesn't believe him for a minute. Last week Portugal expelled the Indian consul-general from beautiful Goa, the heart of Portuguese India. India retaliated, expelling Portugal's envoys in Bombay, where demonstrators are freely proclaiming their intention to invade Goa on Aug. 15. India's Independence...
...fear this whole thing is a piece of idiocy. I'm afraid I can't explain why there was a consul, why there was microfilm, why there were three people on the project, why two of them were at Los Alamos...
Finally, fully a year after his original application, the Liverpool consul summoned him for an interview. During the questioning, he was asked about an appearance before the Free German League of Culture. According to Bruce: "'During the conversation on this subject,' the professor says, 'the vice-consul expressed uneasiness when I said that, while I had no idea that the (League) was a Communist organization, I would still have addressed them if I had known it. It appears that in his view, trying to convert them would have been a subversive activity!'" Polyani's speech before the group was severely...
Then, in June, 1952, 18 months after application, Polyani was turned down flat, because, the consul said, of "certain political beliefs or activities; and membership in, or affiliation with, certain organizations." And the McCarran-Walter act gave Polyani no right to appeal from this decision...
...winner in St. Mark's School (Southboro, Mass.) was La-Rue Robbins Lutkins, who went on to graduate from Yale as a Phi Beta Kappa with honors in history. He joined the Foreign Service of the State Department as vice consul in Havana in 1942 (during the war served with the OSS in Africa), was then transferred to Peking, China in 1946. He is now with the American Embassy in Tokyo...