Word: visas
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Outcries. Most visitors were admitted after a couple of days for a temporary stay. At week's end, with 131 aliens still in custody, the State Department stemmed the flood by canceling temporarily all U.S. visas all over the world. U.S. consulates were swamped with travelers trying to get a new visa under the new rules; many simply canceled passage. In Europe, the Communist press happily crowed about "American political racism" and referred to Ellis Island as "that well-known concentration camp...
...student at Amherst and Harvard, Kase repeats many of the glib imperialist excuses that Westerners have heard before, e.g., the characterization of the China invasion as an anti-Communist crusade, the explanation of Japan's joining the Axis as "a means of improving Japan's diplomatic position visa-vis the democratic powers" in order to secure peace. Yet Author Kase's hatred for the army's trigger-happy expansionists sounds sincere enough. And he has little more regard for the navy, although he records that as late as Oct. 14, 1941, the naval high command seemed...
Hired to appear last week as guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Krips had no trouble getting a visa from the U.S. State Department in Vienna; U.S. Intelligence there decided that if he had any friendly feeling for Russia (he conducted concerts there in 1947) it could be laid to his weakness for adulation and not to any political views. But at the airport in New York, immigration agents nabbed him, took him to Ellis Island. What did they have against him? "Certain information" to investigate. Under the law they did not have to specify; following Immigration...
...first State Department officials said that the visa had not been granted because Emmanuel had withdrawn is application, but later they admitted that the visa was denied because they felt Emmanuel was a Communist...
Since denying Emmanuel a visa last year, the State Department has evidently reversed its position. He has so far met no difficulty in getting a visa to appear at a poetry conference at the Harvard Summer School this summer...