Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded him to tear up his passport. Then came the war: France considered him an enemy alien; when he tried to enlist in the French army he was rejected. In the end he marched...
...have a passport...
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...
...first, they learned, the racketeers had 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...
...British Control Commission in Germany were all busy looking for suspects. One official guessed that before the investigation ended it might become "one of the biggest things we have handled for years." So far, at least 40 D.P.s were thought to have entered Canada by the phony passport route. As for the seven arrested in Toronto, their future was up to Ottawa's immigration authorities. Toronto Rabbi David Monson was pleading their case. Said he: "These people aren't criminals...