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...Washington, when a special Immigration and Naturalization Service board rejected her ninth appeal, the public for the first time was given some indication of why Ellen Knauff, German-born bride of a naturalized U.S. citizen, would not be allowed to enter the U.S. Three Government witnesses, including a former Czech army major, had testified that she spied on U.S. Army Occupation Forces in Germany for the Czechoslovak government shortly before the 1948 Communist coup. Under the law, aliens may be excluded on a reasonable suspicion of espionage or subversion-conclusive proof is not required. Mrs. Knauff can still stall...
Excommunication. In the absence of precise knowledge, the Vatican has leaned over backward to avoid alarmist or inflammatory statements. In February, Zdenek Fierlinger, Czech Vice Premier, published an article in the weekly Parallèle 50 (named for Prague's latitude) in which he boasted that two Czech bishops, "loyal" to the government, had ordained as priests the first group produced by Catholic seminaries since control of these institutions was taken over by the Communist government. At the time, Rome refrained from any suggestion that the officiating bishops acted improperly...
...Stehlik, until recently an obscure parish priest in a Prague suburb. The Sacred Consistorial Congregation, headed by the Pope, issued a declaration restating the laws on excommunication and asserting that "all those who have contributed . . . physically or morally" to the banishment of Beran and to the subversion of the Czech church have incurred excommunication "in accordance with canon law . . . and will remain subjected to excommunication until they obtain absolution directly from the Holy Apostolic...
Excommunication, the Vatican pointed out, is a spiritual sanction. Therefore, the Vatican could issue no list of persons to whom excommunication applied. Each Czech Catholic would have to consult his own conscience...
...long arm of Czechoslovakia's Red police stretched all the way to India, there reached for the Czech ambassador, Bohuslav Kratochvil, who had been appointed to his post a little over a year ago by his good friend Clementis...