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I Mezei faces life on Ellis Is after 17 nations bar him; por; membership in group taken over by Internatl Workers Order barred re-entry into US, '49, as bad security risk; he asks specific charges
WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Senator Styles Bridges, Republican of New Hampshire, said today that he had been assured by officials of the State and Defense Departments that evidence was being gathered for use in any war crimes trials that might grow out of the Korean war. He said that reports of atrocities committed against United Nations personnel by Communist troops were "sadly and unfortunately correct."
Brownell asks SACB to order 12 orgns to regis as Communist-front groups; orgns are: Labor Youth League, Internatl Workers Order, Civil Rights Cong, Amer Com for Protection of Foreign Born, Natl Amer-Soviet Friendship Council, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com, Jefferson School of Soc Science, United May Day Com, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Veterans, African Affairs Council, Com for a Dem Far Eastern Policy and Amer Slav Cong; SACB must hold hearings on each orgn; Brownell to ask regis of others; regis forms sent to Foster, Perry, Flynn; 7 orgns to defy order
Byrd motion for procedure start in '54 approved, Sen com
ancient statue of Aphrodite acquired; illus; cost put at $300,000; exhibit set; statue's history
1953James Russo, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
James Vincent Russo is an American film and television actor. He has appeared in over 150 films in three decades.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]