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...other hand, neither ideology nor double-talk was involved in Low's last successful attempt to get a reentry visa for Communist-controlled Rumania. Rumanian Premier Petru Groza would not see him and so, knowing that Groza fancied himself a tennis player second to no one, Low let it be known that back in the States he himself had been quite a tennist. Around midnight three nights later his telephone rang: the Premier would like to play; his car would be around at 6 o'clock in the morning...
...relatives got Refugee Woloski as far as Cuba. But he could not get on the quota, could not get a visa as a student, could not get work. At a restaurant where refugees congregate in Havana's cobbled barrio judio (Jewish quarter), he met a smuggler's agent named Simowitz. The price...
Agitated and filled with foreboding, Archbishop Joseph Mindszenty hurried into the Vatican just three years ago. He was a week late; the Red army had held up his visa...
Picket Parade. Pianist Gieseking had asked for a U.S. visa in Paris, and got it. He was cleared by the U.S. Military Government two years ago. Since then he has played for U.S. troops in Germany, been acclaimed for his music in Britain, France, Holland, Denmark, Italy. He arrived at New York City's International Airport, smiling and confident. Asked his U.S. managers: "Walter, is everything all set? Are you free to go wherever you want?" Burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.), cherub-faced Pianist Gieseking beamed: "Everything is set, so far as I know...
...ticketholder-could not decide which angered him more: Pianist Gieseking's political record, or the way the U.S. Government had handled him. If Gieseking had been a Nazi sympathizer-and the evidence seemed to show that he once was-why had he been given a visa in the first place? In the second place, why had the Justice Department given him the bum's rush after the State Department had cleared him? The Washington Post asked an even bigger question: "How long are Americans going to deny the artistry of former enemies because, in effect, they...