Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a transcript of her speech, the chairman stated that "scarcely have the war drums died down...while peace-loving countries are busily planning, working, and rebuilding their social order, there are those who are plotting further exploitation and oppression. Foremost among them are the banks and trusts--the high financiers, monopolists, imperialists of America...Through the Marshall Plan they dump their produce on the needy peoples of the world...through the guise of being champions of world democracy they dictate the political policies of the participating countries." She went on to cite the example of the Soviet Union...
...that the required statement would be given only to the State Department. The notes continue "other people expressed the view that the incident was provoked for the purpose of giving the embassy a pretext for entering the delegation and investigating its activities. Others claimed the incident was caused in order generally to disrupt the delegation and create dissension. The Steering Committee finally moved that 'We condemn this action as a criminal act. We regard it as part of a plot, and if we discover the perpetrator we shall expel him. This is but another crude attempt to disrupt the unity...
...reasons why this conclusion was reached have never been brought out, although Washington University officials have asked time and again for an explanation. Such an explanation is certainly called for,--to the university, to Shortliffe, and to the public,; for all the evidence seems to show that the exclusion order was issued because of the professor's political beliefs-- not because he would be a threat to the country as a gangster or dope peddler or bomb thrower would...
...long as the authorities remain silent, these political beliefs can be taken as the basis for the exclusion order. One striking indication that this is true is Shortliffe's story of how he was sharply questioned last May in the consular office in Toronto. What did he think about Indo-China? Would he prefer De Gaulle or the Communists to rule France? Did he believe in the overthrow of government by force...
This degrading treatment has never been explained. Is that all the immigration service has against Shortliffe? Very possibly not, for the visa was approved on June 20--after that experience. Sometime in the next four days (the exclusion order was dated June 24) the authorities changed their minds. Why they changed their minds is important to know. Unless strong evidence is made public, the only reasonable conclusion is that Shortliffe was barred by whim and small-minded officiousness...