Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament: "I hear demands for annexation of Danzig. . . . I get no reply to our proposal ... of a common guarantee of the existence and rights of the Free City. . .. We have given to the German Reich all railway facilities, we have allowed its citizens to travel without customs or passport formalities from the Reich to East Prussia. . . . But we have . . . no grounds whatever for restricting our sovereignty on our own territory. . . . We in Poland do not know the conception of peace at any price...
...give way. In seven days incidents and insults mounted to staggering proportions. A Polish soldier was shot because he blundered over the invisible line, as deadly as a high tension wire, that separates Poland and Danzig; two customs officers were hauled in by Danzig police; a Polish passport office was raided...
...Rosenheim, brought to England a child exile after his Jewish father's murder, heard nothing from his mother feared she was either dead or in a concentration camp, tried to drown himself. That made mild-mannered Mr. Emmanuel angry. Armed only with pince-nez, attache case and British passport, he went to Germany to find out what had happened to Frau Rosenheim. Instead, he found himself held on a trumped-up charge of political murder, escaped the headsman's block only through the intervention of a Nazi higher-up's mistress, the daughter of his old Magnolia...
MOSCOW--Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens of the sensational 'Robinson-Rubens" passport fraud and espionage case tonight was believed to be under the surveillance of the Soviet N.K.V.D.--Secret police--possibly at some obscure health resort, after her release from Butyrskaya prison...
...since 1924, when he was wanted as witness in the Teapot Dome investigation; to Eide Norena, Norwegian soprano; in Paris. The French Foreign Office, fearing to offend the U. S., has withheld citizenship from Blackmer but let him go on living in Paris after his U. S. passport expired...