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dated March 27, 1952: Freedom of travel

The Asian and Far Eastern countries of the International Union of Official Travel Organisation which met in New Delhi, emphasised the need for its members to do everything possible to simplify and liberalise the existing rules regulating travel from country to country. A study was to be undertaken of the formalities governing customs, passports, visa, currency and health certificates in order to establish standard minimum facilities to be adopted by the various countries.

Excerpts from the second Editorial of The Hindu:

"The stress rightly is on the word `minimum'. The ideal aimed at is the scrapping of regulations that irk and inconvenience the travellers. In a delightful essay, J. B. Priestly has drawn attention to the strange contradiction of our time that `for all our talk of United Nations, United Europe, pacts, and a possible World Government, we seem to be permanently saddled with these restrictions.' Pointing out that before the First World War, he travelled to no fewer than five foreign countries `without answering a single question' and that in the eighteenth century when France and Britain were at war, scholars, scientists and men of letters could move freely from one to the other. Priestly makes the sad comment, `A little more of this progress towards a World Society and we shall soon have to obtain official permission to visit the next parish.'

Ban on Swami Sivananda

Swami Sivananda, the youthful Indian Yoga teacher who had given lessons in Victoria and Vancouver said in Vancouver that the Canadian Immigration Department had ordered him to stop his Yoga lessons and return to India. Puzzled by the ban, Swami Sivananda said, "I don't know why?" he said, "Canada is the one and only country where I have met this." Swami Sivananda wanted to stay to complete his cultural mission in Canada. But, it depended on the decision of Mr. Walter Harris, Canada's Immigration Minister, on a recent application from the Swami's disciples of Vancouver Vedanta Society.

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