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...country several times and once taught for six months at the University of Chicago. His permanent appointment began on October 1, 1951, and though he had sent in his visa application some eight months before, the State Department could not locate the papers until September 30. The delay cost Polanyi his post, but luckily the University of Manchester renewed his professorship. The University of Chicago immediately offered him a visiting professorship for the following year and set a squad of lawyers on the case. The Rockefeller Foundation then backed up Polanyi with a $12,000 study and travel grant...
After months of pleading for a hearing, Polanyi finally saw the U. S. vice-consul in Liverpool. Later Polanyi claimed that the consul had not read a page of his writings...
Several months later, after changing his request for an immigration visa to a visitor's permit, Polanyi get the final cryptic refusal...
...McClam said, "I believe that as a matter of public interest and in justice to Professor Polanyi as well as to the many other notable people involved, the State Department must give specific reasons for its actions. . . Otherwise, how can one know whether to criticize the State Department or the law or whether indeed there is even a basis for such criticism. So far two letters and one telegram to Dean Acheson are un-answered...
This month's Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists devotes much of its issue to a discussion of the Polanyi case. In it Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor, phrases a defense of Polanyi...