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British Novelist Graham (The Third Man) Greene, who is something of an internationalist Carry Nation out to smash the U.S.'s McCarran Act, stepped off a plane at San Juan airport, Puerto Rico and snapped a sharp yes when immigration officials asked the routine "have-you-ever-been-a-Communist?" question. Greene, who was en route to London from a vacation in Haiti, was politely detained overnight, next morning took off for Havana for a few days' nightclubbing and the chance to bemuse reporters with his story. The heart of the matter, explained famed Roman Catholic Convert Greene...
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This week the Court also upheld, 7-2, a section of the McCarran Internal Security Act that says an alien must be deported if he was a Communist at any time after he entered the U.S. The opinion was written by Justice Felix Frankfurter...