Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic, 20% Calvinist, and the balance Greek Orthodox, Uniate, Lutheran and Jewish. In 1919, amid the anarchy of defeat and humiliation, a disciple of Lenin named Bela Kun, freed from a Russian prison camp and sent back to Hungary on a false passport, was put at the head of a reign of Red Terror that lasted almost four months...
...Austrian border guard who admitted Hungarian refugees without passport, visa, permit, or investigation and shot the Russian soldier who pursued them...
DEIRDRE RYAN won the refugees' confidence even more quickly by producing her International Passport of the Society of the Sacred Heart -an identification card issued by this world-circling order of nuns to traveling former students. Finding a young woman who had been a student at the Sacred Heart Convent in Budapest, Deirdre showed her card from the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington, D.C. After that, the Hungarians were convinced they were among friends...
...Tell the Youths." In the next three days a battle of position was fought. Travelers racing out of Hungary (passport control had lapsed, and some border crossings were wide open for the first time in nine years) reported "the people taking more control." Radio Budapest talked of "a state of siege" and appealed for "protection from hunger." While shooting was going on in one street, people queued for bread in another. Leaflets appeared. They reiterated the 16 demands, signed by "the new Provisional Revolutionary Hungarian Government and National Committee of Defense." Rebel troops now wore red, white and green armbands...
Investigation into the disappearance of Edward L. Gates, Jr. '56 revealed yesterday that the Winthrop House sopomore had taken a passport and $250 with him when he left his room...