DR. JOLIOT CURIE DETAINED
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION OFFICE’S ACTION
(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK. March 18. Dr. Irene Joliot Curie, the French scientist and daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, the discoverers of radium, was detained by the immigration authorities when she arrived in ’New York from Paris to-night. The Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee of New York had invited Dr. Curie to the United States as its guest. The committee said the purpose of her visit was “to acquaint the American people with the immediate needs of Spanish Republicans in exile.” The committee was included in a list issued recently by the United States Attorney-General (Mr Tom Clark) of organisations classed as disloyal and subversive. Dr. Curie succeeded her mother as director of the renowned Curie Institute. Paris. She is a Nobel Prize winner.
She was taken from the airport to the immigration detention quarters on Ellis Island. None of the people assembled to greet her was allowed to see her.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25448, 20 March 1948, Page 7
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