Maker of Patterns by Freeman Dyson

Author:Freeman Dyson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

FEBRUARY 4, 1955

I came home last night from a strenuous week of conferences. My Indian friend Abdus Salam (who is now fixed in Cambridge) flew over for the meetings. Dick Feynman was there from Pasadena. As far as we can discover, Salam and Feynman and I are the only three who have invitations to Moscow. We are all three seriously trying to go. It seems I am the furthest along so far. I had a prompt reply from the British consul in New York saying he has enquired from London, and HM Government will give me all the usual diplomatic protection and has no objection to my making the trip. I also wrote to the American immigration authority demanding a written statement that they approve this journey and will let me back into the country afterwards. If I do not get their approval in writing, I shall not go. The situations of Feynman and Salam are different. Feynman is a U.S. citizen by birth and so could have no difficulty reentering the country. But he has worked at Los Alamos, and so they may not feel inclined to give him a U.S. passport valid for the USSR. Salam has a more complicated problem because he is not resident here but wants to visit here from time to time. He wants the American visa authority to approve his going to Moscow so that they will not hold it against him at some hypothetical future time when he may apply for a visa. I think that of the three of us, I am in the most favorable position, and it may well be that I am the only one who succeeds in going.

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