IMMIGRATION: Big Net, No Catch

The escape of Communist Kingpin Gerhart Eisler had made the U.S. Government hopping mad. Unable to lay hands on the little man who was snugly draped in the Iron Curtain, the U.S. Government last week did what it seemed to consider the next best thing: it staged a spectacular, two-day inspection of the Polish liner Batory, aboard which Eisler had stowed away. The announced purpose was to find out who had helped him.

Immigration officials went about their work ostentatiously: in the large, bustling detail which boarded the Batory at Pier 88 on Manhattan's North...

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