Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What happened after that, she implied, was partly the fault of the U.S. itself. She described being called to the U.S. Embassy in the spring of 1941; there a "gruff and uncivil" vice consul "snatched" her passport away from her and refused to give if back. She was still so loyal to her country that she "went all to pieces" when she learned of Pearl Harbor. But when she was asked to sign an oath of allegiance to Germany she did so. "It is obvious," she said, with a shrug, "that one has to live, somehow...
...Their Entire Lives." Dr. Julius Margolin, of Tel Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told...
...into the spy ring operated by the Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Zabotin. Documents niched by Igor Gouzenko from Zabotin's files showed Carr's record. It detailed various payments of Moscow money to him, among them $3,000 to bribe an official who issued a false passport for a Russian agent in California. That bribe is one of the counts in the Mounties' warrants charging Carr with violating the Official Secrets Act and the Criminal Code. Last week Canada's Justice Department was considering other charges to lay against Carr when the U.S. authorities were...
...sessions in Paris last September, young Garry Davis, onetime Broadway gadabout, wartime bomber pilot and son of Society Bandleader Meyer Davis, was an eccentric freak who camped on the U.N.'s doorstep, heckled its deliberations. A self-declared citizen of the world who had surrendered his U.S. passport, he was a pathetic lone voice. By last week he was the leader of a surging popular movement. It had surprised him as much as anyone, and it was carrying him along on its crest. TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre cabled...
Davis has been received by France's President, Vincent Auriol, who cordially invited him to stay in France, without a passport. In short, he has been transformed from a freak into a world figure...