Here. of course. is where our Government could be of help. Perhaps these words will reach it. The experience of foreign artists with American hospitality begins when they first come into contact with American officials abroad with regard to their visas. It is only too evident that this experience today is rarely a happy one. and I would like to raise the question once more whether this is really necessary. whether it is really beyond the resources of a great nation like ourselves to make arrangements whereby such visitors and others. too. would be given their visas in a relatively relaxed and civilized way. I would raise the question whether we have no alternative but to fingerprint them like common criminals. Lets remember that what was offensive to the Soviet student editors (and I think needlessly and undesirably so) is no less offensive to visitors from those countries with which we have long been associated by bonds of friendship.