Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter has been discussed unofficially with individuals at the Foreign Office. They have been asked, purely in a personal way, if she could not be given some British official status in order to arrange for a passport and passage. The answer has been: no, it just won't do. So King George is thinking of making her lady-in-waiting to his sister, Princess Catherine, who is now in London and expects to return with her brother or follow soon after he goes to Athens. Friends close to the royal suite think that this will be done...
...bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues. Always it is the law of numbers, of strength, that determines the issue...
...Canada was far from through with Canadians who had been in cahoots with the Soviet spies. In Ottawa the Mounties picked up the first of nine Canadians named in the Royal Commission's final report. He was William Pappin, a passport clerk, and he was accused of issuing a false Canadian passport for a Russian agent who had been operating in Los Angeles...
...Polish major, nine medals (not ribbons, medals) on his chest. His name was Vinokurov-a distinctly Russian name, but he agreed to speak Russian to me only when it became clear that conversation in Polish was quite impossible. The Major was scrupulously polite. I showed him my passport, Russian zonal permit, car registration, driver's license, etc. All were in order, but the Major went on to other questions: How was it that I spoke Russian so well? What did I think of the new Polish frontiers? I talked for an hour, then the Major...
Benito Mussolini's wife & daughter, granted amnesty by the new Italian Republic, were now technically on the loose. But they were in no hurry to go anywhere. Daughter Edda Mussolini Ciano, who had grown fond of her "haven" on Lipari Island, hoped for a passport to Argentina, meanwhile talked about moving to Lucca instead of to her husband's native Leghorn, which might prove to be "too hot for the Ciano family." Donna Rachele Mussolini, Benito's widow, stayed right where she was-on the island of Ischia...