Fate Of U.S. Citizens In Communist Europe
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. A State Department spokesman said l today that the United States might today take "appropriate steps" against Huiigary unless the Hungarian Govern;ment released Mr. Robert Vogeler, the * American citizeii who was arrested on iSTovember 18 for alleged espionage. The State Department on December 20 i banned private American citizens from • travelling to Hungary beeause of Mr. Vogeler 's ax-rest and continued detention. The spokesman said that the Cinited States Government on December 16 had expressed to the Polish Government •"coneern for the welfare and safety of Americans traveliing in Poland." I Iii a letter demanding information concerning the American, Mr. Herman Field, who vailished in Warsaw on August 22, the spokesman added that the United States early in December sent Czechoslovakia a formal Note expressing serious concern over the Czech failure to provide information on the whereabouts of Noel and Herta Field, brother and sister-in-law of Herman Field. They vanished in Czechoslovakia last summer. j The United Press says that the State Department disclosures have prompted speCulation that the United States ) might ban citizens from travelling in all Sovjet Eastern European satellite countries.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 December 1949, Page 5
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