Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleeing to Rumania in September 1939. Several Gestapo attempts to return him to Germany were foiled by Rumanian police. Last week, according to D.N.B., Beck was arrested by Iron Guard and Gestapo agents as he tried to escape "disguised as an Englishman." In his pocket was a British diplomatic passport...
When the American Export Liner Exeter arrived in Bermuda for the now customary inspection of mail and passengers by the British, two customs officers took Captain Brousse to his cabin. They asked for his papers and were shown his diplomatic passport. They then asked if he was carrying any letters. He showed them two sealed paquets de courrier from Foreign Minister Paul Baudouin to Ambassador Henry-Haye. To the Captain's astonishment the British demanded them...
Candidate for President Earl Russell Browder, convicted of passport fraud and out on bail pending an appeal, was denied the right to leave the State of New York. Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. expressed his "informal" opinion that Browder, as a felon, had lost the right to vote...
Wary of Argentine red tape, fearing dearth of transportation to Germany might keep him in prison until war's end, Nazi Arnold appealed the extradition order Uruguay had granted, gained a 20-day reprieve. Last week, with a new passport obligingly issued by the German Legation in Montevideo, he thwarted Argentina again. Uruguayan police relented, granted him permission to sail for Rio de Janeiro, where he could catch a LATI plane for Italy. Steaming north aboard the Japanese Hawaii Maru, he had one more hurdle ahead: Brazil had not authorized his landing at Rio, so he would be forced...
...tell which were men and which were women. The hotel blotter did not help. One of the strangers was registered simply as Fellowe; musical philosopher; birthplace-Parnassus; traveling from-Doubt to Truth. Others were registered as the Piffoel family; residence-Nature; Coming from-God; Going to-Heaven; Duration of passport-Eternity...