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...trumped-up spy charges, U.S. diplomatic officials in Budapest saw them briefly. It was possibly the last meeting Noel and Herta Field would ever have with their countrymen. Over Budapest radio last week came the announcement that Noel and Herta Field had asked for and had been granted "political asylum" in Communist Hungary...
Your accurate summation of Professor Albert Einstein is to be applauded . . . Having escaped the horrors of Naziism, he received in our country not only asylum but honor and privilege, yet he has repeatedly shown a hostility to America that is galling. A year ago he advised a certain individual not to give any information to one of our congressional investigating committees. The professor must think that if one dare not shout "fire" in a crowded auditorium, he is being deprived of the privilege of free speech. When you say he is a great scientist, still does not understand his responsibility...
...fishing vessel, apparently in trouble, was guided into the port of Whitby. In incomprehensible Polish and ragged German, seven members of the Polish crew managed to explain that they had locked their captain in the lavatory, the political officer in his cabin, and had headed for Britain to seek asylum from Red rule...
Starting with the idea that the "Criminally Insane" are those who lack inner poetry and sympathy with the personalities of their fellows, Miss Johnson assembles a group of self-absorbed "lunatics" in the drawing room of an asylum. She then points up their form of insanity by introducing a woman whose companion, "Harriet," is invisible. Since none of the other can see Harriet, showing that they lack insight, they remain in the asylum while the woman goes about her business. The audience is left to classify its own mental condition according to whether or not it can see Harriet...
...unexpected contribution to the welfare fund popped up in the parcel post last week: a package from New York for deposed President Jacobo Arbenz' wife, who has been in embassy asylum or Mexican exile since June. Because seized letters indicated that the contents had been bought with state funds, the government felt free to open it. Inside, from a Fifth Avenue jewelry firm, were diamond earrings, pearl earrings, a diamond ring and a diamond necklace, ordered early this year by luxury-loving Maruca Arbenz and valued at $25,000. Castillo Armas plans to have them auctioned...