Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he returned to America, where the State Department denied him a new passport, many less forward newspapers and journalists have come to his support. He is still discouraged, however, about the lack of courage displayed by others at the time that Dulles issued...
...personally or racially, toward official Washington. He feels that the State Department, through security officer Robert Cartwright, attempted to smear him by implying that his conscientious objection in 1944 was a draft-dodging device. Worthy believes that this is simply clouding the issue of his constitutional right to a passport and was very gratified to hear that Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming had said "Worthy's reputation as a citizen is unsullied, and the State Department owes him an apology...
...issue of Worthy's passport is ever settled, the reporter still has the fight against racial intolerance to continue. He will not be happy until he can present an honest and yet optimistic picture of the life of the American Negro to the people he meets abroad. A very mild-mannered and unimposing man, he is characterized by a doggedness which will keep him in a fight until it is finished...
Clark was informed in 1954 that he would not be reappointed. He refused to leave his post, but his passport was picked up under State Department orders, forcing his return to the United States...
Meanwhile in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee last week, Robert D. Murphy, Deputy Under-secretary of State, explained that the Department had "tentatively declined" to renew Worthy's passport because it felt he had "misused it in the past." An earlier department statement had declared that to renew his passport "would be prejudicial to the interests of the United States...