The appointment of Miss Frances G. Knight as new head of the State Department’s Passport Division has been challenged by Congressman Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, because of charges, published in the Washington Post and Times-Herald, that she was “very interested” in the Nazi puppet regime of Father Tiso in Slovakia.
In a second letter to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Rep. Celler this weekend again questioned the appointment. His first letter, dated March 3, 1955, was sent to Mr. Dulles immediately after publication of the charges. The Secretary has since pleaded ignorance of the charges against Miss Knight in a letter to Rep. Celler and at a press conference last week.
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