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No Right to Leave the Nation: The Politics of Passport Denial and the Rise of the National Security State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2020

Sam Lebovic
Sam Lebovic*
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Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
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Abstract

This article provides an institutional and legal history of passport denial in the United States from World War I to the early Cold War. Identifying the Passport Division as a central institution of the national security state, the article shows that the state was deeply invested in regulating the international movement of people and in monopolizing international connections in a globalizing age. It also analyzes the rise of the Passport Division as an authoritative and autonomous bureaucracy to provide new insight into the institutional development of the national security state. It emphasizes particularly the ways that the executive branch, the Congress, and the Passport Division mutually constituted travel policy as a field of state action in a decades-long process stretching from World War I to the Cold War. It explores the centrality of the reputation of the Passport Division, as personified by its head, Ruth Shipley, in facilitating its rise as an authoritative institution in the field of travel policy. And by analyzing the ways that the Passport Division was able to survive civil libertarian challenges in the 1950s, it explores the surprising longevity of national security bureaucracies.

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Studies in American Political Development , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , April 2020 , pp. 170 - 193
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133. Bauer v Acheson 106 F. Supp. 445 (1952); Gressman, “Undue Process of Passports,” 13–15; Kahn, Mrs. Shipley's Ghost, 19–21; “State Department Upset,” NYT, July 10, 1952, 14; Boudin, “Constitutional Right to Travel,” 56.

134. “Board to Review Passport Denials,” NYT, September 3, 1952, 4.

135. “Appeals Plan Is Drafted in Denials of Passports,” NYT, August 6, 1952, 2.

136. 22 C.F.R. sect. 51.135, cited at The Right to Travel: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights Pursuant to S. Res. 49, 85th Congress, 66, 229 (1957).

137. Whelan, “Passports and Freedom of Travel,” 89–90.

138. Gressman, “Undue Process of Passports,” 13–15.

139. Boudin, “Constitutional Right to Travel,” 68; Kahn, Mrs. Shipley's Ghost, 117–18; Caute, Great Fear, 245–46; Erskine, “You Don't Go If She Says No,” 63.

140. Kahn, Mrs. Shipley's Ghost, 120–21; Caute, Great Fear, 248–49; Boudin, “Constitutional Right to Travel,” 70–71.

141. Boudin, “Constitutional Right to Travel,” 56; Rogers, “Passports and Politics,” 504.

142. Kahn, Mrs. Shipley's Ghost, 121–122; Boudin v. Dulles 136 F. Supp. 218 (D.D.C. 1955); Boudin v. Dulles, 235 F.2d 532 (D.C. Cir. 1956); LRS, Passports and the Right to Travel, 1966, 29; Doman, Nicholas, “A Comparative Analysis: Do Citizens Have the Right to Travel?” ABA Journal 43 (1957): 309Google Scholar.

143. Leonard Boudin, “The Right to Travel: A Significant Victory,” The Nation, July 30, 1955, 95.

144. Ashley J. Nicholas, “Refusal of Passports to Communists,” May 29, 1956 in The Right to Travel: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights Pursuant to S. Res. 49, 85th Congress, 268 (1957).

145. The Passport Puzzle, 265–70.

146. LRS, Passports and the Right to Travel, 1966, 27; Commission on Government Security, Report of the Commission, 458.

147. Briehl v. Dulles, 248 F.2d 561 (D.C. Cir. 1957); “Authority of the Secretary of State to Deny Passports” (Comment), University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 106 (1958): 456–57Google Scholar; Luther A Huston, “Court Backs Dulles in Refusing 2 visas,” NYT, June 28, 1957, 1.

148. Lawless, Ken, “Continental Imprisonment: Rockwell Kent and the Passport Controversy,” Antioch Review 38 (Summer, 1980): 304–10Google Scholar; “Artist Rockwell Kent Dies at 88,” Washington Post, March 14, 1971, B6.

149. Kent v. Dulles, 248 F.2d 600 (D.C. Cir. 1957).

150. Anthony Lewis, Court Further Limits Travel Restrictions, NYT, June 22, 1958, e7; “The Passport Puzzle,” 263.

151. Kent v. Dulles, 248 F.2d 600 (D.C. Cir. 1957).

152. Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958).

153. Rogers, “Passports and Politics,” 509.

154. Lewis, “Court Further Limits Travel Restrictions,” e7; Anthony Lewis, “Red Query Dropped for U.S. Passports,” NYT, June 25, 1958, 1; Paul P. Kennedy, “Passport Ruling Sifted in Mexico,” NYT, June 29, 1958, 26.

155. “Kent to Visit Soviet,” NYT July 19, 1958, 8; Lawless, “Continental Imprisonment,” 311.

156. Lewis, “Court Further Limits Travel Restrictions,” e7.

157. “Walter Rebukes Passport Chief for Heeding High Court Ruling,” NYT, July 23, 1958, 15.

158. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Special Message to Congress on the Need for Additional Passport Control Legislation,” July 7, 1958, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11120.

159. Passport Legislation, 85th Congress, 2–4, 7–8, 55, 59–60; “Dulles Bill Asks Passport Curbs,” NYT, July 8, 1958, 10; “Passport Bill Stirs New Debate on Rights, NYT, July 13, 1958, e4; “Walter Rebukes Passport Chief for Heeding High Court Ruling, NYT, July 23, 1958, 15.

160. “Douglas Refused Passport to China,” Christian Science Monitor, June 25, 1959, 3.

161. New York State Bar Association, Freedom to Travel, 14–17; Kahn, Mrs. Shipley's Ghost, 115; The Right to Travel: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights Pursuant to S. Res. 49, 85th Congress, 62, 192 (1957).

162. Worthy v. Herter 270 F.2d 905 (1959); Zemel v. Rusk 381 U.S. 1 (1965); Frazier, The East is Black, 94–107. In 1964, Worthy did have success in a related right-to-travel case. In 1961, Worthy had traveled to Cuba without a passport. On return, he was prosecuted under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that made it illegal to enter the country without a valid passport. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned his conviction, finding that these provisions of the act violated a constitutional right to return home. See Lovelace, Timothy H., “William Worthy's Passport: Travel Restrictions and the Cold War Struggle for Civil and Human Rights,” Journal of American History 103 (June 2016): 107–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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164. Security and Constitutional Rights, 84th Congress, 98; Passport Legislation, 85th Congress, 7–8.

165. Passport Legislation, 85th Congress, 7–8.

166. Kent v Dulles, 357 U.S.129.

167. Linda Charlton, “Passport Chief, 70, May Just Go On and On,” NYT, July 25, 1975, 17; Unger, Sanford J., “J Edgar Hoover Leaves the State Department,” Foreign Policy 28 (1977): 110–16CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Robert Sherrill, “First Lady of the Passport Office—Efficiency Expert or ‘Ogress’?” NYT, March 4, 1971, sect. XX, 1; Caute, Great Fear, 246.