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...retiring President campaigned in this manner. He is making it difficult for any decent Americans to vote Democratic in 1952." Then, in words addressed especially to Catholics and Jews, Mundt added: "Despite the fact that over a hundred leading national organizations, including the National Catholic Welfare Council, endorsed the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, Mr. Truman blandly cries it is 'anti-Catholic.' The man who smashed the greatest enemy of the Jews in modern times, Adolf Hitler, who led Jewish fighting men in war and who, on every occasion, has shown friendship for the Jews, is labeled...
...McCarran Immigration law is a bad law: "The whole world knows that to these shores came oppressed people from every land under the sun; that here they found homes, jobs, and a stake in a bright, unlimited future ... In every town and village in Europe, from the Ural Mountains to the channel ports, that truth is known ... to the Czech, the Pole, the Hungarian who takes his life in his hands and crosses the frontier tonight-or to the Italian who goes to some American consulate-this ideal that beckoned him can be a mirage because of the McCarran...
Although its aim is to exclude Communist spies and propagandists, the McCarran Act,* declares a group of eminent U.S. scientists in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is isolating U.S. science from vital European ideas and knowledge. It is also, they claim, antagonizing Europe's intellectuals and giving propaganda ammunition to Europe's Communists...
...Edward A. Shils, professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago and consultant to the Air Force's ultra-secret Rand Corporation, leads off with a long and bitter analysis of the McCarran situation: "A very large number of distinguished European scientists, almost all of them anti-Communist and deeply devoted to the freedom in which scientific truth is sought and discovered, have been frustrated in their efforts to come to the United States to share their knowledge with their American colleagues. [Sometimes] their applications for visas have been .. . finally granted, but only after delays so long that...
Safe No. Foreign scientists, all friendly to the U.S., add their protests, and say that the McCarran Act has already damaged U.S. prestige. Says Physicist M. Louis Leprince Ringuet of France: "I have even had occasion to see the expression 'Iron Curtain of the West' applied quite widely to the U.S." Says Professor M. L. Oliphant of Australia, who was refused a visa although he was a key man in the U.S. atom bomb project: "At times I feel very bitter about the situation, since I believe that, in the fields of radar and atomic energy, I have...