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...Senator McCarran's bill has already struck near home. Last week, the State Department, acting under one provision of the newly-passed anti-Communist act, barred from the country two German women who were scheduled to visit Radcliffe...
These women had intended to study living conditions of American college girls; their visit was to be sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Fund under the auspices of the State Department. In excluding them, the State Department said only that it was acting under the McCarran Act provision prohibiting admission of people who have been affiliated with a "totalitarian" organization...
...long as the McCarran Act remains on the books the executive will be responsible for carrying it out. Many more innocent persons will be jailed or deprived of rights and privileges. And few, if any, real subversives will be caught with this law's admittedly clumsy machinery. Even some Congressmen who voted for the measure have stated that it should be amended soon to make it workable...
...prominent German women, scheduled to visit Radcliffe next week have been barred from this country under the provisions of the McCarran Bill. Miss Isabelle Arms, executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, revealed the Government's action last night...
Both of the excluded women are prominent in German politics. One, Brunhilde Schepper, is a member of the Women's Democratic Organization in Wiesladen; the other, Ursula Adam, was the first president of the League of Women Citizens of Berlin. They are barred from the country under the McCarran Bill section which prohibits admittance to people who have ever been affiliated with a totalitarian organization...