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The question is pretty academic, but Fidel Castro was once (1956) refused visa to U.S. because of Communist activity. . . . When one of Castro’s present cabinet ministers was arrested in Mexico in 1956, Soviet Embassy interceded with authorities for his release. . . . Castro’s economic commissar, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, according to Seriate Internal Security Subcommittee witness, was planted in Cuban revolutionary movement by a Caribbean C. P. apparatus especially trained for subversion in Prague. . . . It’s not confirmed, but Chinese Communist pilots are reported flying for Cuban air force.

Senators Dodd (Conn.) and Keating (N.Y.) headed bipartisan delegation that called on State Department to press issue of freedom for Eastern Europe at Summit kaffeeklatsch. . . . New York State’s security risk law, passed during Korean War to keep subversives out of key government posts, expires on June 30. . . . Congressman Bruce Alger (R. Tex.) says that under terms of $251 million Area Redevelopment Act (Ike will veto it) workers in summer resort areas could apply for federal subsidies rest of the year. . . . Congressman James Davis (Ga.) points out that 76 Georgia counties are designated as ’’distressed areas” in bill, but ten out of eleven Georgia congressmen opposed it. . . . Senator Williams ’ motion to investigate the charges by Drew Pearson against Adam Clayton Powell Jr. failed to get Senate approval.

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The question is pretty academic, but Fidel Castro was once (1956) refused visa to U.S. because of Communist activity. . . . When one of Castro’s present cabinet ministers was arrested in Mexico in 1956, Soviet Embassy interceded with authorities for his release. . . . Castro’s economic commissar, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, according to Seriate Internal Security Subcommittee witness, was planted in Cuban revolutionary movement by a Caribbean C. P. apparatus especially trained for subversion in Prague. . . . It’s not confirmed, but Chinese Communist pilots are reported flying for Cuban air force.

Senators Dodd (Conn.) and Keating (N.Y.) headed bipartisan delegation that called on State Department to press issue of freedom for Eastern Europe at Summit kaffeeklatsch. . . . New York State’s security risk law, passed during Korean War to keep subversives out of key government posts, expires on June 30. . . . Congressman Bruce Alger (R. Tex.) says that under terms of $251 million Area Redevelopment Act (Ike will veto it) workers in summer resort areas could apply for federal subsidies rest of the year. . . . Congressman James Davis (Ga.) points out that 76 Georgia counties are designated as ’’distressed areas” in bill, but ten out of eleven Georgia congressmen opposed it. . . . Senator Williams ’ motion to investigate the charges by Drew Pearson against Adam Clayton Powell Jr. failed to get Senate approval.