Documents: US Ban Of Graham Greene “Made US Look Bad”

In 1952, the US banned novelist Graham Greene from entering the United States, citing his youthful membership in the Communist party. Greene was a critic of US foreign policy. Documents reveal though that US officials thought the ban made the US look bad. “They conceded that he had been a member of the British Communist party for only four weeks when a 19-year-old student, ‘as a joke’. They admitted his writing clearly showed that he was anti-communist, according to the documents obtained by the Guardian under the US Freedom of Information Act.”