[Asks to be given privately his opinion on the legality of a decision by the State Department to deny United States citizens protection and passports after they have lived abroad for more than five years; explains he was issued a temporary passport by the Embassy in Rome under the condition that he declare his intention to return to the United States within a limited time; states that he knows other people with the same predicament, most of whom like himself are without the funds to make a case before the Supreme Court ; mentions mutual friends of the old "Adirondack set" John Holmes , Forbes, and Ward; says that he and the judge are the only ones of the set still living.]