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...first program will cover the subject of journalism, and will feature talks by Victor O. Jones '23 of the Hoston Globe George Weller '29 of the Chicago Daily News, and Walter Waggoner and Robert Glasgow of the New York Times and Herald Tribune respectively...
...Glasgow early last summer, two young Polish Jews named Mordecai Szulc and Manick Kuper met a mysterious stranger whom they knew only as George. They were veterans of the Polish Army, and they were anxious to get to Canada. George was willing to help them, for $1,500 apiece...
Detectives got their first hold on the racket when a Canada-bound "Scotsman" at Prestwick airport, Scotland, pulled out a passport bearing the name of a criminal then in a Glasgow jail. Police arrested the masquerader, were soon hot on the trail of a passport forging and smuggling ring...
...used passports stolen from the Passport Office. The blank books were smuggled into Belgium, "validated" with a forged Foreign Office stamp, then sold to the highest bidders in Paris, Hamburg or Munich. When demand swamped supply, George and his associates hit on another scheme. Over many a pint in Glasgow pubs, they asked local folk to hand over their identity cards "to help a friend who wants to get to Eire." For a fiver, hundreds of Glaswegians did so. The card details, plus photographs of D.P. clients, were then used in filling out passport applications. When the passports were issued...
...Home in Canada after six months journeying in Britain and Europe by car, I want to thank TIME for being in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Paris, the Riviera, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam - keeping us informed not only of the events we were seeing but also of what was happening in the rest of the world where we weren...