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...politics remain curious. He says he is a registered Republican, but the only picture on his office wall is one of F.D.R. Yet Bridges is still sympathetic to Communist causes-a tendency that kept him in trouble with the U.S. Government for years. The U.S. repeatedly tried to deport Bridges to his native Australia, once got him convicted of perjury for swearing in his 1945 application for U.S. citizenship that he had never been a member of the Communist Party. But Bridges won that on appeal, and eventually won every other case...
...practical point of view -as a peasant trader who was out of his league and should have known it. Yet the verdict on Laval must ultimately be moral. Again and again, to preserve its identity as a government of France, Vichy had to order Frenchmen to imprison and deport other Frenchmen in order to keep the Germans from moving in and imposing even harsher demands. Does the hope of saving five men justify the death of one? Did France have a right to salvage what it could from the 1940 debacle at the expense of its allies...
...Howard McGrath; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach. The Washington Daily News hooted that "the Administration now will hide its grapes of McGrath in the ever normal McGranery," but McGranery went at it with a will, bounced Justice bureaucrats, freely fired crooked U.S. marshals, and started proceedings to deport such Mafia mobsters as Frank Costello...
...insisted that the government could not legally send Soblen back to the U.S. Israel has no extradition treaty with the U.S., and even if it did have, political crimes such as espionage are not considered grounds for extradition. In self-defense, Ben-Gurion insisted that his government did not deport Soblen to the U.S., but merely expelled him from Israel. He was free to get off the plane at any stop, the government insisted...
...SANE to criticize the U.S. Government with the regime-controlled propaganda of his peace congress hosts, there was only shocked silence. Later, when a group of British, U.S. and Scandinavian youths started a ban-the-bomb march near the meeting hall, police snatched their banners and threatened to deport them as "provocateurs...