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...jobs, she had left home without a word. For six months she and Negrini lived together in a shabby one-room apartment near Milan which he shares with two elderly aunts, a cousin and several cats. But Claire found Italy "beautiful and peaceful" - until the American consulate demanded her passport to return her to the U.S. as a minor living abroad without her parents' consent. Claire refused, said she would renounce her American citizenship first, and got an Italian soggiorno (residence permit), which expired this week...
Tension is contagious. A visitor catches it immediately upon landing at the U.S. Air Force's Tullin Field. He gets his passport checked and then a mimeographed sheet from the commanding officer warning him not to go out of the city districts, not to speak with Russian soldiers, and not to photograph Russian installations. A previous memorandum advises that censors strike out anti-Soviet remarks in letters...
...physics at London University who had spent some 18 months during World War II working on atom projects in the U.S. Last fortnight, just as Burhop was about to leave for a "good will" trip to Moscow with 19 other members of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, his passport was canceled...
...Foreign Office, belatedly security-conscious since the mysterious disappearance of Diplomats Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess two months ago (TIME, June 18), gave no reason for the action. Nor did it explain why, at the same time, it had canceled the passport of an unnamed Foreign Office official who was being investigated...
...House's questions, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies replied in effect: the government is not preventing anybody from leaving the country-it is just taking back some passports, which are government property. "[Such] withdrawal of a passport might constitute a grave reflection on a person's character," insisted Tory Godfrey Nicholson...