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...unintended catch in the net was visiting Scripps-Howard Correspondent William H. Newton, who wanted to take a plane out the day after the census. He needed an exit visa to leave Iraq...
Pattern for Travel. They found it surprisingly easy to get around: only Kerr (who had offended the Yugoslavs with an earlier story) had visa trouble, and only in Yugoslavia were people unwilling to talk. In Helsinki, Attwood got nowhere with some Communists until he mentioned the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild; the Finns were first astonished ("How can you belong to a union and work for a capitalist paper?"), then friendly...
...upon Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State, to identify two "Dear Sumner" notes which Mrs. Roosevelt had written to him concerning Eisler in 1939. Eisler, as a refugee music professor from Hitler Germany, was then attempting to get into the U.S. through Cuba, but was being denied a visa as a suspected Communist. With her first note, on White House stationery, Mrs. Roosevelt sent Welles a batch of papers given to her by a friend of Eisler's, a "perfectly honest person," who thought that the case had not been examined carefully enough. Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt...
Mexicali Ruse. In any case, as the committee knew beforehand, neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor anybody else on its "prominent persons" list had actually been of any help to Eisler. He got into the U.S. late in 1939 on a visa obtained from a "sleepy" consul at Mexicali, Mexico. The consul, Wyllis Myers, whom the committee did not bother to subpoena, issued the visa without bothering to check his files on Eisler...
Then Vishinsky picked up a handy gavel, rapped the desk and stomped out. Last week, the U.S. Government granted a visa to Pierre Courtade, to cover U.N. for the Paris Communist paper L'Humanité, but it attached strings. Courtade could not go anywhere in the U.S. except New York, could only write about the United Nations while here...