21 MAY 1942, Page 4

One might suppose that a British citizen wanting to enter

a En Dominion could merely say, like Palmerston's Don Pacifico, "C Britannicus sum," produce evidence to that effect and be app priately welcomed. By no means, apparently ; not, that is, if wants to go from the United States to Canada. The trouble, jud by the experience of a well-known Englishman who has just m the attempt, is not so much that Canada will not let you in that the United States will not let you out. Diligent inqu as to whether an exit-permit from the U.S.A. was necessary din the answer from the immigration officials that it was, from the 1 department that it was not, from the British Consulate that it not, from the British Library of Information -that it was not.

would-be traveller, in the end gave it up and stayed put.

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