Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even if an espionage agent walked in and asked for a passport, we'd have to issue it," said a State Department passport official after the Supreme Court held (TIME, June 30) that the Secretary of State has no statutory authority to deny passports on the basis of "beliefs" or "associations." Warning of just that kind of urgency, President Eisenhower last week sent a message to Congress requesting "clear statutory authority" for the Secretary to deny passports in the interest of national security. "Each day and week that passes without [this legislation] exposes us to great danger." And Secretary...
...issuance of U.S. passports to [Communist] supporters facilitates their travel," said Dulles. "It clothes them when abroad with all the dignity and protection that our Government affords. Surely our Government should be in a position to deny passports to such persons?" Outlook for a passport bill in Congress: good...
...decision, the Supreme Court ruled last week that the Secretary of State has no authority to deny passports to U.S. citizens on the ground of "beliefs" or "associations." The court thus overturned the findings of lower courts that Secretary Dulles was justified in denying passports to New York Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl in 1955, when they refused to sign non-Communist affidavits. Net of the majority opinion, written by Justice William O. Douglas, with Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William Brennan concurring: passport legislation, jelling into the Passport Acts...
Three weeks after his release from a Washington mental hospital, mad old Poet Ezra Pound formally applied for a U.S. passport to go to Italy, where he will live with his daughter, stated that he would also like to visit Spain, France, Britain and Switzerland. State Department reaction: Ezra...
...passport, issued in the name of Sam White by the American consul in Mexico City. The customs officer at the Swiss border seized it and said abruptly to Sam: "Come with me." "My train will be leaving any minute,'' protested Sam. "Is there something wrong with my passport?" But the official handed him over to an inspector of police, who began firing absurd questions at him: "You have a wife living in Paris. Is that right?" "So you yourself are a sculptor ... Is that right?" Before long, Sam, a bachelor and no sculptor, realized that...