IMMIGRATION: The Half-Closed Door

Mme. Joliot-Curie, daughter of famed Physicist Marie Curie, is a distinguished nuclear physicist in her own right, a Nobel prizewinner and the wife of a Communist. Like her husband, Frederic, she is also a member of France's Atomic Research Commission. Late one afternoon last week, Mme. Curie stepped off an Air France plane at La Guardia Field. Waiting to meet her was Dr. Edward Barsky, chairman of the Communist-front Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, under whose auspices Mme. Curie was to lecture in the U.S.

Before Dr. Barsky could greet his distinguished guest, immigration...

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