Show L W t N Nr I i f J t I I 8 J rS I l r 4 AI LI J L S IN L J t f f M jI fi R j I J For several months now the US State Department has been quite upset It seems among the officials an anti communist was found and since this most unwelcome dis dis- dis covert covery every effort has been exerted to remove this blot on the escutcheon In fact by byK K t the time this Is printed It Itis I Is possible n 1 t that hat 11 1 Miss r e el Francis G MiJi 1 4 l u ay ma no longer lODger be ber bethe r f F the state De par t ment head bead of the passport A Aslon slon At last c W Harder reports she has been stripped of some authority In this area Miss lUiss Knight has been accused of very unorthodox beliefs She just does not Dot believe that an American passport should be Issued to a known communist Her refusal on occasions to todo todo do so even despite a Supreme Court ruling to the contrary has made her quite unpopular with many of her superiors Now ow of course her refusal re on occasions to issue a passport to a known communist has caused some to say she Is a reactionary Apparently she Is Isan Isan an AmerIcan and perhaps the nation has now reached a stage where the of Amer scan Ican and reactionary are syn especially Il If the Amerl an also happens happens to be anticommunist This whole weak kneed tude of the State Department is perplexing to most citizens ens c I ar In dt I Printed un on any American passport Issued Is the I lion that the document Is no good for travel Into several communist areas Including lied ChIna the communist controlled portions of Vietnam and Cuba and Albania Incidentally this fetish the State Dept has bas about tiny AI bania Is a curious one ODe Iu In addition it is clearly stat ed that If an American does go into these areas he will be prosecuted So college students have flocked to 10 Cuba with the ex picked up by the Castro government Three men one of them a Yale professor In Inthe inthe the past few months went In to North and accord hag Ing to all reports even made speeches over radio llano I Now of course on their reo re turn it could have perhaps been expected that a US mar shah or two would be down at atthe atthe the port to greet them But at the last report they are still walking around free as birds and presumably h the communist line as they It In 5 It perhaps should be In order at this point to comment ex on these most liar situatIons 5 On the other hand further discussion Is p perhaps dant although It might be asked it If the State Dept Is so sensitive to the feelings of communists why are Amen Amerl can boys dying In Vietnam |