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...interested in your article and editorial on Glen Shortliffe's difficulties with the U. S. immigration officials, and am writing to tell you what I know about his work and opinions. I was an undergraduate at Queen's University from 1945-48, knew Shortliffe slightly, audited his lectures occasionally, and heard him speak numerous times at forums and public meetings...
...LOUIS, Mo., Oct.--Glen Shortliffe, Canadiam professor and "liberal socialist," who was appointed last spring to the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, has been denied an American visa by immigration officials in Toronto, it was learned today, because he is considered "a person whose entry is deemed to be prejudicial to the public interests of the United States...
...inability of the university to secure the services of Professor Glen Shortliffe of Queens University is extremely unfortunate. In the judgment of his colleague in the field of Romance languages, Professor Shortliffe is an excellent teacher, a promising scholar and a man of the finest qualifications of citizenship and character...
...case of Professor Glen Shortliffe, a Canadian who has been denied permission to enter this country by immigration officials, should give the U. S. people cause for uneasiness. Shortliffe accepted last April an appointment to the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. He received his American visa in June--yet only four days later that visa was invalidated by a peremptory exclusion order. The order said Shortliffe was "a person whose entry is deemed to be prejudicial to the public interests of the United States...
...progressive weakening of the forces which his enemy is able to put into the field . . . Perched on the crumbling parapet of an ill-drained butt [a dugout for grouse-shooters], he cannot but contemplate with sardonic eye the scanty and dilapidated motor transport assembling at roadhead in the glen below him. The sun . . . no longer flashes from the coachwork of immaculate limousines backing and filling on the turf . . . The escort of dogs is more imperfectly disciplined. The unit has lost most of its auxiliaries-the pony men, the bearers of cameras and mackintoshes and flasks, the underkeeper who combined...