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...should pay a visit to the U.S., where his books are bestsellers. Moravia delightedly accepted the suggestion and filed his papers. Last May, the embassy announced that Moravia's visa had been denied because of a State Department ruling that he cannot qualify under the U.S. Internal Security (McCarran) Act. This action was part of the Administration's campaign to sabotage the act by administering it with ridiculous mock zeal...
...Division Chief Mrs. Ruth Shipley asked him: "Are you a Communist?" Answered Rodney: "That's none of your concern. What does that have to do with a passport to cover a sport event?" Mrs. Shipley thought it had plenty to do with it, since the "spirit of" the McCarran Internal Security Act bans passports for Communists. If Rodney would swear he was not a Red, she said, he could get his passport. When he declined to do so, Mrs. Shipley rejected his application. Said she: "The problem involved is not the Olympic Games but whether...
...McCarran subcommittee, set up by Congress in December 1950, plunged immediately into a complex inquiry: Was the Institute of Pacific Relations infiltrated by Communists and their sympathizers? If so, how much control did the I.P.R. exert on U.S. public opinion and U.S. Far Eastern policy...
Last week, after 17 months of study and hearing, involving 66 witnesses and thousands of documents, the McCarran committee gave its answer. A 226-page report, packed with fascinating quotations from witnesses and documentary exhibits, boiled down to a crushing verdict against the I.P.R.: "The subcommittee concludes . . . that the I.P.R. has been, in general, neither objective nor nonpartisan, and concludes further that, at least since the mid-1930s, the net effect of the I.P.R. activities on United States public opinion has been pro-Communist and proSoviet, and has frequently and repeatedly been such as to serve international Communist, Chinese Communist...
Loaded for Bear. The McCarran committee, unlike the Tydings committee, which preceded it and which seemed more interested in belittling subversion than in pinning it down, was loaded for bear. But McCarran's counsel, Robert Morris, rigorously avoided star-chamber or headline-hunting procedures, sifted evidence for fairness in secret executive sessions...