Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stemmed from a "grave emergency in law enforcement," approved the bill-in a closed-door session of precisely three minutes. ¶ In a 5-to-3 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the right of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to deny passports to Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl for refusing to sign non-Communist affidavits. Then four of the judges, putting chips on their shoulders for the Supreme Court to knock off with a Jencks-type ruling, went on to say that confidential Government information can remain confidential...
Secretary of State Dulles told his news conference in Washington yesterday that he would like to see a court test of his refusal to issue newsmen passports to visit Red China. But Nieman fellow, William Worthy, who had been denied a new passport on account of his recent unsanctioned trip to Red China, doubted last night that Dulles would allow his case to reach the courts...
...Dulles' statement does not ring a genuine note with me because the general policy of the Administration has been to avoid court tests in passport cases in rather ignominious fashion," Worthy said...
...added that his lawyers believe that if his case does get to the courts, the government is "bound to lose." At present, Worthy is awaiting the outcome of his April 29 hearing before the Passport Office...
...State John Foster Dulles retreated a step; he is willing, he said last week, to ease the ban if the "newsgathering community" will help him work out the administrative details. His main concern is no longer to keep reporters out of China (TIME, Feb. 18) but to devise "a passport policy which will permit responsible newsgathering and at the same time not permit a general influx of Americans into Communist China...