Schwartz. but I do know that in the last several years. during his tenure as Administrator. there has been a tremendous improvement in our official attitude toward travel both into and out of the United States. It would be disastrous if this trend should be reversed. I know of dozens of instances in which foreign officials. educators. and publicists who needed to have their misconceptions of America corrected and whose understanding and good will could have been of inestimable benefit to us were denied visas because officials in Washington drafted regulations on admissibility going even beyond the letter of the McCarranWalter Act and consular officers interpreted those regulations with inflexible rigidity. All this has changed in recent years. It would be disastrous if the spirits of Joe McCarthy and Scott McLeod should again dominate our passport and visa policies. Are we once more to assumeor act as if we assumedthat every foreign liberal or radical is an enemy agent. that our democracy is so wobbly that a few hundred or even thousand of such visitors would topple it. and that American citizens are so untrustworthy that they must not be permitted to examine other societies at firsthand? This may not be the intent of the reorganization. but the manner in which it was engineeredin deep secrecy. without consulting the person most directly concernedis certainly suspicious.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that foreign liberals or radicals are enemy agents.