THE ELLEN KNAUFF STORY

by Ellen Knauff ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The brave -- and bewildering story of the war bride who was a detainee on Ellis Island for more than three years, and whose exclusion from the United States was prompted by hearsay and never given any explanation by the Immigration Service. From the beginning when her letters to Kurt, her husband, were never sent through, and her privilege to have a lawyer was denied, this goes on to the long struggle, first undertaken by Kurt whose Washington runaround ended in puzzled exasperation, then by a lawyer, Jacobson, who died in the championship of her case. To be deported, as a ""hazard to internal security"", this was stayed -- a first time -- and a second time, twenty minutes before the plane takeoff; a Supreme Court hearing ended in a split verdict; the newspapers, and the American Civil Liberties Union, picked up the story and carried on the crusade; a Congressional Subcommittee hearing failed to clear her case; until finally her legal admission was secured --and along with it a condemnation of the tactics of a government bureau.... A story which deserves a hearing, wider than it will presumably achieve in print.

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Publisher: Norton

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1952

Categories: NONFICTION