Word: deportation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Communist Spy Elizabeth Bentley that Belfrage had been a spy himself in 1943, Belfrage again refused to answer. As soon as Republican Congressman Bernard W. Kearney heard his testimony, he demanded that the Immigration Department, which had already begun looking into Belfrage's record, take steps to deport...
...Curt Heinburg, economic counselor, had served as a chief in the political division under Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. He had worked on the "solution of the Jewish problem in Serbia," i.e., had helped deport Jews to slave labor, concentration camps, or death. He resigned after the investigations began...
...Ruled that the U.S. has the constitutional right to deport aliens who have been, before or after their entry into the U.S., members of the Communist Party. Wrote Justice Jackson for the majority (in a 6-2 decision): "That aliens may remain vulnerable to expulsion after long residence is a practice that bristles with severity. But it is a weapon of defense and reprisal confirmed by international law as a power inherent in every sovereign state." Dissenting: Black and Douglas...
...editors demanded that the Washington correspondents' Standing Committee bar all Tassmen from the Capitol press galleries. In the Senate, Maryland's Herbert O'Conor went much further. He offered a resolution not only to bar Tass from the galleries, but to deport all non-American Tass representatives...
...Weizsacker, 69, Nazi diplomat, Hitler's last Ambassador to the Vatican; after a brain illness; in Lindau, Germany. In 1949 he was sentenced at a Niirnberg war crimes trial to seven years in prison (he served 18 months) principally for writing "no objection" on an order to deport 6,000 Jews from France to Poland...