Word: passport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have just . . . spent two years in central Africa, and, after reading your story . . . I am ashamed of my American passport . . . I was earnestly questioned by Africans and Europeans about race problems in America . . . I unwittingly painted the picture much brighter than it evidently is. Possibly I have been away from America too long to remember the sordid details of what still goes on there...
...matter who was hurt. Next morn ing Pavone resigned. Foreign Minister Pic cioni sent his resignation to Scelba, and it seemed likely that Scelba would accept it. Scelba appointed Minister Without Portfolio Raffaele de Caro, a Liberal, to make a full investigation, ordered Montagna's passport lifted, and an investi gation of Montagna's income-tax returns. Montagna, silent up till then, threatened to start talking. "I may cause the end of the world," he pouted...
...heads again." Chief culprit, Wu thought, was the Generalissimo's son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-Kuo, who heads the secret police, runs the political department in the armed forces. Wu charged that once "a dastardly attempt" was made on his life, said that Chiang refused to give a passport to his 1 5-year-old son now living with Wu's parents. "It is awful...
...overbright." Many times, in the late '305, Chambers met Felix on a Washington or Baltimore street corner, gave him documents to be photographed with a Leica purchased by the Communist underground. For such work, Felix had been trained in Moscow, where he traveled on a forged U.S. passport. Once Chambers went to Felix's Baltimore home, but he had only a vague impression of its whereabouts...
...then asked for hearings by both the Army and the McCarran Committee. He testified before the former in March 1952, and before the latter in April 1952. In May of that year, after reviewing the records of both hearings, the State Department issued him a passport...