Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese called her Ai Wei-teh ("The Virtuous One"), the nearest they could get to Aylward. As the years went by, Ai Wei-teh's fame spread, and she was often called in for help and advice by Chinese officials. But one thing troubled her: her British passport seemed to her a symbol of pride. "I have given up my home and my parents for God," she told herself. "But I'm still different . . ." So she tore up her passport and became a Chinese citizen. The notice was posted on the doors of the town hall and everyone...
Last week 46-year-old Missionary Aylward fingered her Chinese passport. "China is my home," she said. "I'll go back to China even if they turn out every foreigner. You see, I am Chinese...
...Passport to Pimlico. A small section of London takes hilarious advantage of its chance to secede from the Commonwealth (TIME...
Working for the American-founded "Die Neve Zeitung" she first dealt with political problems. In 1947, when the French occupation zone in Germany was behind a "silken curtain" and practically inaccessible to correspondents, Miss Brucher some how procured a passport from American authorities and muckraked the French administration there for her newspaper...
...Passport to Pimlico. A small section of London takes hilarious advantage of its chance to secede from the Commonwealth (TIME...