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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...
...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...
...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...