Lord Laurence Olivier, who has been in the forefront of the campaign to secure emigration rights for Valery and Galina Panov, declared here today that it would be wrong and self-defeating for the friends of the Panovs to demand that the British government ban the Bolshoi Ballet tour. “How does one ask that two dancers be free to practice their art where and how they choose while denying a whole company of artists that self-same right?” Lord Olivier asked. He said it must “be left to individuals and individual organizations to make it clear that the visit is not a tacit approval of Soviet policy.”
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