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Good writeup. Seems like it should also mention that he was banned from entering the US in 1952 after being convicted of having sex with a man. After reading hi

by sigmar 5y ago

Good writeup. Seems like it should also mention that he was banned from entering the US in 1952 after being convicted of having sex with a man. After reading his dislike for ship travel, I have to imagine that the cheaper air travel in the 1950s would have made a third visit more likely (if not for that criminal charge and his subsequent suicide).

DaedPsyker 5y ago
Do you know if the ban was due to a blanket ban on anyone convicted of anything abroad or specific crimes? I mean the second one is bad for someone just being gay but the first would seem to catch people convicted of political crimes in the likes of Spain during the fascist era or the Soviet Union.
- DaedPsyker 5y ago
  On a slight side note to this, I remember as a kid one of the common things cops said to us about drugs besides health was, if you get convicted you can't go to the US anymore. Just a bit of a chuckle I had there of the threat of not being able to visit the us was bigger than threat of jail.