Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Acheson's claim that Emmanuel cancelled his application before the consul could act doesn't tell the whole story. Acheson's assistants themselves state that Emmanuel was "found in-admissable under our laws." Although Emmanuel was never formally refused a visa, he almost certainly would have been unless the State Department's strategy was to stall him until he was forced to abandon voluntarily his U.S. trip...
...does not. Leading French Communist writers have attacked him viciously and sarcastically in print. But some U.S. officials apparently heard that Emmanuel did not agree with American foreign policy, and conceiving of no middle ground, accused him of being a Communist sympathizer and delayed or withheld his visa. By thus cutting down Wellesley's power to choose its own staff, and especially by hiding the reasons for its action, the State Department has exercised dangerous standards of desirability and fitness...
Within the year, two other colleges have had experiences like Wellesley's; thought control at the visa level has become a serious threat...