Word: visas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, a Negro, entered the U.S. from Jamaica in 1919. Like Williamson, he was picked up as he left his Manhattan apartment and taken to Ellis Island. He not only advocated violent overthrow of the U.S., said the warrant, but returned from a Mexican trip in 1945 without a visa. Smith's politics were no news to Curran. Only recently Joe had called him a Communist Party cardholder...
State Department officials last week refused to let Brazilian Architect Oscar Niemeyer into the U.S. when Niemeyer recently asked for a visa so that he could deliver a lecture series at Yale. Niemeyer, who helped design the proposed New York capital of the United Nations, is one of the world's best known architects. He is also one of Brazil's best known Communists...
...tart reply, the State Department pointed out that the original fault lay with U.N. Hasan had entered the U.S. on a student's visa, and thus had no business getting a reporter's job without consulting the U.S. As for Kyriazidis, he was up for deportation because the two papers he had come to the U.S. to represent had been shut down by the Greek government. Nobody had notified the U.S. until after Kyriazidis' arrest, that he had found a new employer, a small Communist weekly in Cyprus. This looked like a dodge to the State Department...
...September, Pierre Courtade, correspondent for Paris' Communist daily, L'Humanite, got a U.S. visa only after promising to stay on the reservation (the U.N. and New York City areas) and to do no anti-American propagandizing...
...serene man who was used to being called "Master" moved through Asia, disturbing echoes reached the U.S. In Manchukuo the Japanese thought he was a Russian agent. The Russians thought he was a Japanese spy. The Chinese thought he was a U.S. spy. The British had denied him a visa into troubled India in 1930, on the grounds that he was a Russian sympathizer...