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...decided to relax the new passport regulations for 15 days. It was a breathing space. No one was optimistic enough to think that in so short a time the masses of India and Pakistan could be made to understand the meaning of that mystery of modern travel, a passport visa...
...McCarran Act has already damaged U.S. prestige. Says Physicist M. Louis Leprince Ringuet of France: "I have even had occasion to see the expression 'Iron Curtain of the West' applied quite widely to the U.S." Says Professor M. L. Oliphant of Australia, who was refused a visa although he was a key man in the U.S. atom bomb project: "At times I feel very bitter about the situation, since I believe that, in the fields of radar and atomic energy, I have been of some help...
...safer than a yes. If they let the wrong man in, he may be publicly denounced for some fleeting contact with Communism 20 or 30 years ago. Then the consul's career might be in danger. Thus, it is prudent to delay or refuse the visa...
...early 1951, the U.S. Embassy in Rome suggested to Italian Novelist Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia that he should pay a visit to the U.S., where his books are bestsellers. Moravia delightedly accepted the suggestion and filed his papers. Last May, the embassy announced that Moravia's visa had been denied because of a State Department ruling that he cannot qualify under the U.S. Internal Security (McCarran) Act. This action was part of the Administration's campaign to sabotage the act by administering it with ridiculous mock zeal...
...Alberto Moravia has denied ever having had any Fascist or Communist affiliations. The public record sustains his denial ... In 1950, when Milan's Corriere della Sera, Italy's most respected newspaper, sought to send Moravia to Moscow as a correspondent, the Soviet Union refused him a visa. Such an action is what one expects of the Soviet regime. It is a precedent which the U.S. Government would have been well advised not to follow...