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When Campbell applied for a visa to visit Burma with the Russians, he got an angry refusal. Happily, the British embassy came to his aid by assuring the Burmese that TIME'S Campbell had never been to Burma, had never participated in a rebellion anywhere...
...eight-month controversy between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. ended when the Soviet government issued a visa to the Rev. Louis F. Dion of Worcester, Mass., a Roman Catholic Assumptionist priest, who will replace a fellow Assumptionist expelled by the Soviets in March (TIME, March 14). Father Dion will minister to American Catholics in Moscow. Less than 24 hours after his visa was issued, the U.S. granted a visa to Archbishop Boris of the Russian Orthodox Church, who was forced to leave the U.S. earlier this year when his temporary visa expired...
Though neither he nor Frye had difficulty in traveling, Berman had a long wast to get his visa is the first plate. He first made an application in 1947, and had intermistenly renewed it afterwards. In February, 1954, he applied for a visa for the coming summer, best was once more unsuccessful. When he read last winter, however, that Nikita A. Khruschev, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party, had told newspapermen he was surprised to hear that Americans were having difficulty in obtaining visas and would try to remedy that situation, Berman immediately cabled Khruschev, explaining the details...
Frye had no trouble getting his visa this summer, and was generally given no trouble at all in coming and going. He gratefully reports that no inspection was made of his baggage as leaving the country, and that his was allowed to take out undeveloped film, in addition to books, manuscripts, and even microfilms. But on one occasion Frye had a brief run in with the MVD. While eating with some Indian travelers he had met, he was discovered by a trio of MVD agents. At first they were unable to believe that he was an American, and apparently traveling...
...fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague a visa to the U.S. When Schang asked about visas, he said, the State Department "encouraged" him. Last week, Pianist Gilels told the embassy he was willing to come. Schang took an option on Carnegie Hall for three dates late in September...