Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eisler is the only avowed Communist who will appear at the meeting. Recently convicted of passport violations and contempt of the Un-American Committee, he is now out on ball pending the outcome of his appeal. According to Committee head J. Parnell Thomas, Eisler was an agent of the Comintern and head of all seditious communist activities in this country...
...Congressmen, however unsympathetic they might be toward Isacson's foreign policy views, were disturbed at this infringement of their right to go anywhere and investigate anything. If one Congressman could be forbidden a passport, so could others. Besides, if any citizen of the U.S. had freedom to speak his mind at home, why should he be denied the same freedom in Europe? Congressmen were not alone in thinking that the State Department, instead of using its passport power to curb its critics, would do well to label them properly and let them talk their heads...
...news of another passport refusal, see PRESS...
From Manhattan, A. B. Magil of the Communist Daily Worker pressed the point deeper. He had applied for a passport to visit Palestine, and the State Department had turned him down (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Magil fired a cable to Geneva, asked the U.S. delegation if it really meant what it said...
...delegation promptly recovered the State Department's fumble. It cabled the department and Communist Magil got his passport. (He threatened to make another fuss at Geneva unless another Worker reporter got a passport to cover the Italian election April...