In the early 1950s, Schram wrote several articles on East and West Berlin which drew the attention of the American State Department, which withdrew his passport, though restoring it in 1955.
在50年代初，施拉姆寫了東、西柏林的幾篇文章，引起美國國務院的注意，一度取消了他的美國護照，但在1955年又予以發還。