Word: mccarranism
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Schweig, a student at C.C.N.Y., explained that Advance was being attacked because it had "supported the Communist Party's position" by opposing nuclear testing and the McCarran. Act, and advocating negotiations on Berlin and nonintervention in Cubs. He said that he did not think "there is a single peace organization in this country which could not be attacked on the same grounds...
...speakers blasted the McCarran Act at a meeting sponsored by the Socialists Club last night...
...citizenship, a landing card and a customs declaration. He had no passport. Following a brief interrogation by immigration officers he was admitted to the U.S. But the next April a Florida grand jury indicted him for entry into the U.S. without a valid passport, allegedly a violation of the McCarran Act of 1952. On August 8 of the same year Worthy was found guilty and sentenced to three months imprisonment and nine months probation...
...State Dean Rusk invoked the ban on January 19, 1961, stating: "In view of the conditions existing in Cuba . . . I find that the unrestricted travel by U.S. citizens to or in Cuba . . . would be inimical to the national interest." He claimed the power to do this under the McCarran Act, which says in part, "After such proclamation [of a national emergency by the President] . . . it shall be unlawful for any citizen to depart from or enter the U.S. without a valid passport." Worthy has appealed his case which will be heard again this year in a federal circuit court. Doubtlessly...
American travel to Cuba came under the arbitrary control of the State Department on January 19, 1961. The Department acted under a section of the McCarran-Walter Act which authorizes the executive branch to restrict travel in times of "national emergency" as well as during war. Such a state of national emergency was proclaimed in 1953 and is still legally in effect today...