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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...
Polyanyi has been in this 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...
Several months later, after changing his request for an immigration visa to a visitor's permit, Polanyi get the final cryptic refusal...
Although the State Department is still being evasive, the McClams have got some encouragement from Lodge and Kennedy. They also hope the replacements of both the chief of the visa division and the Liverpool consul might living a reconsideration of the case...
...embassy in Rome, which last summer invited Novelist Alberto Moravia (The Woman of Rome) to visit America only to have the State Department deny Moravia a visa, announced that a renewed invitation had been accepted by Moravia who is now awaiting Washington's blessing...