Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having once turned down the request of eleven Soviet editors of student newspapers and magazines to visit the U.S., Attorney General Herbert Brownell announced a change of heart. On the recommendation of Secretary Dulles, said he, the U.S. will waive the McCarran-Walter immigration act, allow the editors to come avisiting for one month...
...climax of Gulda's third visit to the U.S. since his ill-fated arrival in 1950. At the age of ten, in Vienna. Gulda was impressed into a Hitler Youth group, and that was enough under the McCarran Internal Security Act to land him on Ellis Island. After a protest storm in the press Gulda finally played-to rave reviews-and took the next plane home. His political history cleared up, he later gave about 200 concerts on tours of the U.S., Europe and South America...
...tour is that the editors applying range in age from 29 to 40--not exactly the counter-part of American undergraduates. Still, if the Soviet government wants to send older and more hardened Communists, the only result would be harmful press reactions. Another reason for refusal is the McCarran Act, which prohibits the entry of Communists into the U.S. But exceptions are possible, as in the case of Soviet delegates to the United Nations or to special meetings...
Immigration. Renewing a recommendation made in 1953, the President asked that the McCarran Act be amended to eliminate injustices and discrimination...
...retain our faith in the United Nations as the best means of preventing war. He cited the General Assembly's demand to Red China to free the captive U.S. filers as an attempt to "do through the U.N. what Senators would do through blockade." MacLeish stated that men like McCarran and McCarthy, who prefer to resort to force are "traitors to peace...