Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Realistic measures of defense called for elimination of telecommunications with the Axis countries, closer passport inspection, control of Axis-owned businesses (on which Argentina and Chile submitted a reservation); and stricter surveillance of local Nazi groups, which openly brag of loyalty to the Fatherland even though a German colonist "wears a sombrero and spurs as wide as wagon wheels...
...easy last week to get a French colonial tourist visa on your Danish, Dutch or even German passport. The best of Vichy contacts would not get one for U.S. citizens or British subjects...
...relative of the man who slew Rasputin, Meyendorff has been in this country since he was 11, and he has obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in America. Last spring he applied for a passport back to Russia, and when it was refused, the government instituted proceedings against...
...both the U.S. and Britain, had attacked Malaya. Unlike the President, the Prime Minister needed to wait for no formalities. At 12:30 on Monday he held a meeting of the War Cabinet. To British Ambassador Sir Leslie Robert Craigie in Tokyo went orders to ask for his passport and to tell Japan that Britain was at war. This was a full nine hours before President Roosevelt signed the U.S. declaration. Churchill had nearly lived up to his November promise to declare war on Japan "within the hour" after an attack...
There are, however, several other requirements which prospects for service must meet. They must have 12 passport pictures, $200 to pay for their uniform, etc., and be able to provide their own pocket money...