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...Very Rev. Hewlett ("the Red Dean") Johnson was almost ready to set off on that delayed lecture tour in the U.S. Turned down when he asked for a visa last August (it was not the Dean the State Department objected to, but his sponsors, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship), the Dean now had new guardian angels: a new, "non-subversive," specially formed Committee of Welcome.* The State Department was expected to come through with the visa this time...
...report to the Cairo governate. There I was ushered in to see another plainclothesman in what I presumed was the security police office. I asked him who he was and why he had summoned me and he said, 'You have applied for a new residence visa and I must ask you some questions.' I told him I had already received the visa. He was somewhat abashed. His questioning, mainly about my home and family, led nowhere and after he again refused to say who he was or why I had been summoned, I politely excused myself and departed...
...office of a Captain Sabry, one of them said: 'I was spit on only once climbing the stairs ; I guess that's par for the course.' With a face-cracking smile the captain demanded my passport, flipped through it and said: 'Your residence visa has expired.' I pointed out that it had just been renewed. Said he : 'I am cancelling it. You will get a temporary visa. You will leave Egypt within seven days...
Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...
This week New York's United Irish Counties Association went to his rescue. It called the refusal of a visa "a masterpiece of ambiguity." And since O'Donnell was a "government official" (he is a member of Eire's Commission of Immigration), the association thought the ruling looked very much like an affront to the government of Eire...