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...questions other travelers are asked. The Department of State said it would take one to two years to add another 100 consular officials to its foreign service to be able to handle the additional work under the McCarran Act. In the meantime, the U.S. Immigration Service made a "gentleman's agreement" with the major foreign shipping lines to put an inspector aboard the big liners to screen the crews during the voyage; this would avoid a hopeless jam on arrival. The first inspector to try it was Leonard Martin, who went aboard the Liberte when it left New York...
...French, British, Dutch and Norwegian governments sent protests to the U.S. The Liberte withdrew from the "gentleman's agreement." Said Britain's Manchester Guardian: "... a scandalous piece of illiberalism ..." Calmer observers pointed out that there was nothing illiberal about trying to keep Communists out of the U.S., but that this particular part of the McCarran Act was hardly the most efficient...
...Arms, by Evelyn Waugh. An increasingly serious satirist turns to World War II for a theme and a Christian gentleman for a hero; the first volume of a trilogy (TIME...
...Arms, by Evelyn Waugh. An increasingly serious satirist turns to World War II for a theme and a Christian gentleman for a hero; the first volume of a trilogy (TIME...
...Arms, by Evelyn Waugh. An increasingly serious satirist turns to World War II for a theme and a Christian gentleman for a hero; the first volume of a trilogy (TIME...