Word: passport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long, patient hours at the polls, Alabama's Negroes grasped for themselves last week the full citizenship to which federal civil rights legislation had served only as a passport. Their courage and persistence proved an optimistic augury, not only for the Old Confederacy's five million Negroes of voting age but also for the nation as a whole. For the promise held out by Alabama's primary is that the politics of the South will become more mature and more meaningful as more and more Negroes freely participate in elections, the free society's fundamental process...
Aptheker, who recently returned from a trip to North Vietnam, had to limit his remarks in order to catch a plane to Washington, for a court battle concerning the validity of his passport...
...past, requests for information required no special approval and were routed through Miss Frances G. Knight, Director of the Passport Office. She handled approximately 150 such requests last year...
...Miss Knight has missed the point. The Hughes directive was an unpardonable extension of the government's investigative powers, and not--even according to the passport office--an isolated incident. The directive cited Hughes's testimony at a 1961 hearing on behalf of the late Robert A. Soblen, who had been convicted of espionage, as evidence of Hughes's "pro-Communist leanings." But Hughes testified only as an expert witness on OSS procedures during the war, saying that Soblen could not have had "access to information on highly secret weapons...
Miss Knight, however, regards anything less than complete cooperation with the FBI as one manifestation of "Schwartzism," a phenomenon she named after Abba P. Schwartz, former director of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, a proponent of more liberal passport policies, resigned three weeks ago after he got wind of a Knight-encouraged and Rusk-approved plan to abolish his bureau. And now that he has been phased out of the State Department, a little creeping "Schwartzism" might be a fitting legacy...