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...Christmas in New York. The passengers tripped ashore, most of them worrying about nothing more serious than whether Customs would find that extra bottle of Arpege cached in the shaving kit. But 271 members of the crew were held on board. Reason: they had run afoul of the new McCarran Walter Immigration law which went into effect at midnight...
...spent an unusual amount of time chatting with non-Russians. The State Department learned a year ago that Skvortsov was engaged in espionage. While Skvortsov was visiting Moscow last summer, the U.S. told Secretary General Trygve Lie that it hoped he would not be allowed to return. ¶The McCarran Committee learned from State Department officials that since 1949 the Department has told the U.N. that 40 of the 1,794 Americans on the U.N.'s staff were bad security risks. Twenty-six had been fired by Lie. Fourteen others were still on the U.N. payroll because, said...
Only 1%. Hiss was not the only name the endowment listed last week. Between 1926 and 1939 it gave $182,000 to the Institute of Pacific Relations, which in 1952 was denounced by the McCarran Committee as an "instrument of Communist policy." It also paid out about $15,000 in small sums to such leftists as Professor Frederick Schuman of Williams College, and Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, listed by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a member of the American League for Peace and Democracy and of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare. All in all, said the endowment...
...type visa who intends to go to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, or any other country in the Western Hemisphere during the Christmas holidays should leave the United States before December 24 in order to be able to return on his present visa. After the new immigration law (McCarran Act) goes into effect on December 24, any foreign student goes from the U.S. to any country in the Western Hemisphere will be compelled to get an entirely new visa to reenter...
Under the McCarran Act passports must be valied for six months beyond the date for which any U.S. visa is issued. At present passports need only two months' validity...