Mr. President. the socalled McCarran Act about which Mr. Hume writes. the Immigration apd Nationality Act of 1952. was not in existence three seasons ago. so that Mr. Humes statement is. on its face. inaccurate. The fact of the matter is that Boris Christoff was refused a visa in 1950. which was 2 years before the enactment of the McCarran Act. The basis for this visa refusal goes back to the law enacted at the beginning of the visa system. The McCarran Act liberalized that law to some extent. but not enough to permit the issuance of a visa in such a case. That the alien may have had a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Co. did not remove the grounds upon which the visa was refused. and in fact. this circumstance had no bearing upon the action taken by the Visa Division. No man is above the law. Mr. President. simply because he happens to have a great talent. But I did not rise today to discuss either the talent of Mr. Christoff. or the reasons why he was denied a visa. My purpose is only to point out that this is another instance in which the Immigration and Nationality Act is being blamed for a state of facts to which It did not contribute. is being charged with a result which it did not produce. This is a greatly overworked tactic on the part of those who seek to discredit this law in an effort to bring about its repeal or substantial modification. I doubt that Mr.
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