Word: polanyi
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...whom the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tags "Britain's leading anti-communist scholar", Michael Polanyi is having a lot of trouble with the McCarran Act. In January 1951 Polanyi applied for a visa to take over the chair of Social Philosophy at the University of Chicago. The State Department told him on June 26, 1952, that "he was a person inadmissable into the U. S. under the provisions of (the McCarran Act). These relate to certain political beliefs or activities; and to membership in or affiliation with certain organizations...
...excluded from the U.S.; they were not told why. Some suspect it was because they belonged to large professional societies that have some Communist members. Others think that their birth in a country now dominated by Russia was the sole reason. A typical case is that of Professor Michael Polanyi, Hungarian-born chemist and philosopher long resident in Britain. He was kept from teaching at the University of Chicago, although he had been for 20 years one of the most active anti-Communists in Europe...