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...delegation was organized last spring by a group called the American Festival Committee, with headquarters in a dingy building on Bleecker St. in downtown Manhattan. People wishing to attend the festival had to make arrangements through this committee; the Hungarian government was unusually willing to approve all visa applications made through the group. Anyone who wished to go to the festival and could play his way was welcome--the only restriction was that no purely "observers" were allowed, all had to be members of the delegation...
...after this meeting, one of the girls who had voted for the motion of censure found her passport ripped apart. She had returned to her room after going out for a cup of coffee, and discovered her passport lying outside of her suitcase. The pages stamped with her Hungarian Visa, her U. S. Military Permit, and her identification photograph and been torn...
They feared that the visa would be dented. But on June 20, the visa was approved and two days later the official border pass was sent...
...case of Professor Glen Shortliffe, a Canadian who has been denied permission to enter this country by immigration officials, should give the U. S. people cause for uneasiness. Shortliffe accepted last April an appointment to the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. He received his American visa in June--yet only four days later that visa was invalidated by a peremptory exclusion order. The order said Shortliffe was "a person whose entry is deemed to be prejudicial to the public interests of the United States...
This degrading treatment has never been explained. Is that all the immigration service has against Shortliffe? Very possibly not, for the visa was approved on June 20--after that experience. Sometime in the next four days (the exclusion order was dated June 24) the authorities changed their minds. Why they changed their minds is important to know. Unless strong evidence is made public, the only reasonable conclusion is that Shortliffe was barred by whim and small-minded officiousness...