IMMIGRATION: Magda Turpitude

In 1926, "moral turpitude" became a national catch-phrase when U. S. immigration authorities used it as grounds for barring entrance into the U. S. of Vera, Countess Cathcart. Countess Cathcart's moral turpitude consisted of having been named as corespondent in a divorce case. Last week, "moral turpitude" suddenly popped up in U. S. headlines again for the first time in more than a decade. Occasion was the arrival in New York of Mme Magdeleine La FerriƩre ("Magda de Fontanges"), Parisian journalist and actress who last spring pinked France's one-time Ambassador to Italy...

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