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...reviewing the organizations which he has sponsored, Mather said that none could be considered red front organizations and none had engaged in anything more subversive than criticizing the McCarran...
...since Composer-Pianist Sergei Prokofiev's visit 34 years ago is Emil Gilels, who comes as Soviet Russia's "foremost pianist." Following the "spirit of Geneva," he was admitted to the U.S. as an "official" so that he would not have to be fingerprinted under the McCarran Immigration Act. But his fingers are making an unforgettable impression on U.S. audiences...
Built-in Booby Traps. The refugee program was disjointed originally by a Senate tug of war. At first the bill, called the Emergency Migration Act, was intended largely for people from Southern Europe barred by the low quotas of the McCarran-Walter Act, the basic U.S. immigration law. Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran managed to change much of the content, as well as the title. As passed, the act was an administrative monstrosity which Congress assigned to the State Department's Security Chief, Scott McLeod. There was no staff, no office space, not even a desk...
Citing that the restrictions on the beliefs of immigrants are the first symptom of vanishing freedom, he traced the attack on individual liberties through the Smith Act, the McCarran Internal Security Act, and the government security program...
Both Democrats and Republicans realize the inadequacies of the McCarran Act and have pledged support to its revision. In an attempt to avoid the quotas, in 1953 Congress accepted President Eisenhower's Refugee Relief Act admitting 209,000 immigrants under an emergency program. But like the McCarran Act, RRA was fouled up by the inefficiency of the immigration service and the complexity of security and eligibility requirements...