Second. We could emphasize our willingness to increase communications with the Chinese by eliminating the requirement of special passports to China and other nations. Any adult citizen should be allowed to travel at his own discretion whenever he can secure a visa. The right to travel should be a basic right of American citizens. For a time prior to 1960. Peking seemed to be interested in negotiating an exchange of newsmen with the United States. Since then. the Chinese have said that progress on this and other issues must await settlement on the Formosan problem. Some 50 U.S. journalists have validated passports for China. but only Edgar Snow and a farm expert who was inadvertently issued a visa in Helsinki have been admitted. For the United States to drop the travel ban on all citizens would make our own principles clearer and more confident while placing the responsibility on Peking for roadblocks to communications and travel. Third.