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Refusal of U.S. Vise to Sidney Silvermen

March 18, 1953
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The refusal by the State Department to ### Silverman. a member of the British Parliament who is an Jewish Congress, has been referred for action by the British any Eden, Foreign Secretary of Great Britain.

###denied a visa under the regulations of the McCarran-Walter### he sought to enter this country to address a ”clemency din### tomorrow in New York on behalf of convicted atomic spies Julius ######re said their government felt that Mr. Silverman had a right ###tes and that his exclusion was insulting to a friendly nation ###eferred to Mr. Eden and the Foreign Office in London for fur### may be made shortly by Foreign Office officials in London to ###dor there. The sources described Mr. Silverman as a liber### Labor Party ”but definitely not a Communist.”###learned that Edward Maney, chief of the State Department ###ected an appeal by the American Jewish Congress for re###se. The AJC, in its approach to the Visa Division clearly ###m both the Purpose of Mr. Silverman’s visit and form his ###ictions, but viewed the denial of a visa as an injustice. The ###has opposed ”The Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosen### feels there is no anti-Semitic or civil liberties issue involved ###ion.

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