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Among the 96 passengers debarking at Heathrow Airport from BEA's Lisbon-London Flight 75 was Ramon George Sneyd, who went to the Commonwealth immigration desk and presented his Canadian passport. The immigration official took one look at the document, then asked the bespectacled Sneyd to join him in a back room for some "routine" questions. The interrogation was far from routine. Sneyd was found to be packing a loaded pistol in his back pocket, plus another Canadian passport. And when Scotland Yard's crack detective Tommy Butler took over, the alert immigration official's original suspicions...
...picked at random from a city directory. Using his new identity, Ray submitted a passport application. Because of Canada's ludicrously simple passport procedures-which demand, in effect, that the applicant merely swear that he is Canadian-he was granted one. On May 6 he flew BOAC to London, and the next day on to Portugal...
...only got as far as changing the d in Sneyd to a. At the Canadian embassy in Lisbon he told the consul: "My name has been misspelled," and was issued a new passport on May 16. Thus, with the two cards and pistol in pocket, he flew off to London and incarceration at Cannon Row police station, a stone's throw from...
LAND OF THE GUN, headlined a London Sun editorial. "Violence has become the brutal hallmark of the most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth." Added Britain's Lord Harlech, a longtime friend of Kennedy: "Violence in the U.S. has become a world scandal." France, which came within an inch of violent collapse last month, found time in its recovery to fret over U.S. government: "America dreamed of a government of judges," said Paris' Le Monde, "but it suffers the law of violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired...
There were some reappraisals abroad when the news came that Kennedy's suspected killer was less a product of U.S. society than of the festering hatred of the Middle East. "After we had all written about violence and cankers in American society," wrote London Daily Mirror Columnist George Gale somewhat soberly, "it came in a way as a sort of relief and undoubted surprise that Robert Kennedy was allegedly killed by an Arab for perfectly understandable political reasons." However, that fact, he predicted, will "become generally obscured," and indeed it was obscure enough in the continuing world comment...