Word: kuper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
With the help of relatives in England, they managed to raise the cash. A few days later, George was back with British passports and British identities (Szulc became "Ronald Drummond"; Kuper, "James Hughes"). They were also given Scottish birth certificates, plane tickets for Canada. Not long after that, the two Poles were in Toronto. Szulc got a job with a furrier, Kuper with a tailor...
...story came out last week when, in Toronto, Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen arrested Szulc, Kuper and five other Polish Jews who had been routed to Canada by George from a D.P. camp in Germany. Charged with illegally entering Canada, all seven were jailed. The arrests brought the first news of a passport racket that has been in full swing for nearly a year, has kept Scotland Yard in a dither for weeks...
...little distance, six white men were grouped around another flagpole, flying the Union Jack. They were Heinrich Kuper, a German-born, naturalized planter who had lived 30 years on Santa Ana, and his five sons. Kuper suggested that the Amphion fire some star shells into the air. Scared stiff, the followers of Martin Lo lit out for the jungle...
...Planter Kuper reported that Communists had taken advantage of unemployment in the copra industry to incite the islanders. The movement, also called "Marching Rule" (Marxian Rule), was led by natives from Malaita Island, traditional headhunters who had been proselytized by Australian Communist servicemen. The Malaita agitators, according to Kuper, were in touch with a U.S.-organized Communist cell on Guadalcanal...