Show US U.S. VII u. S. S Gives Visa To Red Dean WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Oct 29 INS The The state Itale department assumed full responsibility Frida Friday for is issuance issuance is- is of a visa to permit Dr Hewlett Johnson so-called so red dean of oC Canterbury to come to the United States and lecture on an eastern Europe The departments department's decision was supported In the face of oC a n prote protest t against Johnsons Johnson's admission by bythe bythe bythe the Jewish League Against Com Com- Last August Johnson was denied denied denied de de- de- de nied permission by the state de department ie- ie c- c to enter the country on the ground that the society sponsorIng sponsoring sponsoring spon spon- him tho the American Council for Soviet-American Soviet Friendship had been listed by Attorney General General General Gen Gen- eral Tom Clark as a subversive sub organization Reviewing the case st state te department department department de de- spokesman Michael McDermott McDermott McDermott Mc- Mc Dermott recalled that that on on Sept 17 a committee headed by Dr Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard university had taken the sponsorship sponsorship sponsorship sponsor sponsor- ship o of Johnson and requested he hebe hebe be bc granted a visa Perry said that his committee was was not wholly convinced that Dr Johnson has the whole story of eastern Europe but had an important part of it and should have every encouragement our hitherto markedly free society affords to report on a situation daB daily being emphasized in the newspapers McDermott said that on Oct 21 the American embassy in London London London Lon Lon- don dontas tas was informed that the department department de- de withdrew its objection to o the Che issuance of a visa because of the change in sponsorship The visa was Issued the following da day |