Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trio of reformed Comrades (including an oldtime Soviet gumshoe artist, Nicholas Dozenberg) testified that Comrade Browder had forged names to three U. S. passports since 1921. Each of these offenses (as Comrade Browder admitted) occurred more than seven years ago, hence could not be directly prosecuted. So the Government got at Earl Browder indirectly, showing that, when he applied for a later passport in his own name, he denied ever having had a passport before...
...holds the scales. Too many liberal minds can be swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...
...government considered Browder a criminal, why did they dig up a charge of passport violation--a charge which is almost a stranger to the courts of law? The question, though a moral one, stands out like a sore thumb. To prove that Browder was treated like any other American citizen, the government will now have to convict all the evaders of passport laws--and there are plenty. It cannot let other offenders pass unnoticed, and still claim that Browder was not a marked...
...worry about the type of charge against Browder, the public should be concerned with the chance of such weak accusations against other radicals. To accuse Fritz Kuhn of embezzlement is one thing: thousands of other men have received the same sentence. But to pull a rarely known charge of passport evasion out of the hat is a far more serious matter. It proves that Browder was not treated like any other citizen, that the government was using every trick and cunning to scalp the big Red Chief...
...YORK Karl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party today was helped along a road which may lead to his imprisonment for passport fraud by a mild-looking, chubby old man who has admitted serving as an espionage agent of the Red Army...