recollections
Section 6. Culture
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Once he told me that he had been invited to take part in a Summer School in a University in the USA. He goes to the US Consulate in London to get a visa. ‘Ah yes, Mr Hall, would you please go to the office down the corridor, second door on the left.’ He goes, and is politely asked to take a seat. The official takes down a large box-file. He opens it. It is full of notes and documents. Taking one out, he comments: ‘I see, Mr. Hall, that you were once the editor of the New Left Review ...’

Stuart did get his visa, but he was struck by the large dossier that had been compiled about him by the US security services.

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