Word: corliss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denying Corliss Lamont a passport for European travel, the State Department has begun to draw an iron curtain which is as great a danger as its Russian counterpart to understanding and spreading democracy. This is the curtain of an unofficial "house arrest" which may envelop individuals whose particular brand of "Americanism" conflicts with the preachings of Senators McCarthy and McCarran--State Department critics who spend more time than the Supreme Court in interpreting and defending the Constitution...
...Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas Lamont, has a long record as a Soviet apologist and a sponsor for Communist fronts, including a term as chairman of the National Council of Soviet-American Friendship. In its investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations. Senator Pat McCarran's subcommittee has made great play with Lamont's name as an Institute member...
Last week, in a letter to McCarran, Corliss Lamont, now a lecturer in philosophy at Columbia University, made some sharp points. Lamont protested that the subcommittee "has tried to give the totally false impression that I am a Far Eastern expert and have been a prime mover in the affairs of the Institute . . . But in fact I have never been particularly interested in the Far East and have for only a few years been a member of the Institute, and a very inactive one at that...
McCarran's committee had other and solider evidence against some staff members of I.P.R. It had hurt its case by exaggerating Corliss Lamont's influence on the Institute...