Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passport Permission Given...
...addition, Allied Military Authorities have granted permission to hold the seminar, and the U. S. State Department has granted passport permission. World Student Relief in Geneva has undertaken full responsibility to supply food and to operate the institution. Students from all over Europe, selected on the basis of their need for physical recuperation as well as their scholastic achievement, will be invited to attend the seminar without expense...
...came to the U.S., according to the FBI, in 1933, as chief liaison man between the party and the Comintern. An obscure figure known only as Edwards, he was seldom seen by the party rank & file. He moved in & out of the country freely. (The House Committee held a passport application which demonstrated how the trick was turned. It was dated Aug. 31, 1934, bore the name of a Communist writer, Samuel Liptzen. It was filled out in the handwriting of a left-wing lawyer, one Leon Josephson. Clipped to it was Eisler's photograph...
After listening to all this, the House Committee charged him with conspiracy to overthrow the Government, contempt of Congress, perjury, income-tax evasion and passport falsification. It ordered him sent back to Ellis Island and asked the Justice Department to act in a hurry...
...international identification documents (successors to the Nansen passports of post World War I) would soon go to hundreds of thousands of refugees on the Continent. Refugees who had by necessity become connoisseurs noted with satisfaction that the new documents were carefully printed on heavy paper; they looked almost as impressive as the document which is generally considered the very symbol of the passport's glory: the royally embossed booklet in which His Britannic Majesty sternly commends his subjects to the world...