Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forth, like the surge and sound of the sea itself went Michael Patrick O'Brien, the stateless soldier of fortune-possibly Hungarian, possibly American-who boarded the Hong Kong-Macao ferry last September, only to find that he could not land on either shore because he had no passport (TIME, Oct. 13). By last week O'Brien had completed his 44th round trip between the China Sea ports. He had reached a sort of understanding with the Lee Hong's captain and crew. O'Brien, who was once a ship's engineer...
...applied for a Soviet passport at the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Washington in 1939, but heard nothing from the Russians. In 1946 she went to work for U.N. as a $3,500-a-year clerk-typist in the Russian section of the radio division (she spoke and wrote Russian). Three years later the Russians sent her a passport. "I took it for granted," she said, "that on receiving the Soviet passport I was a Soviet citizen...
...leaving me one minute for fear that I might escape . . . I was so much in the grace of Mussolini that I was never permitted to speak on the radio, to work in the theater or in the cinema, and from 1933 until the liberation, I was deprived of a passport, while all the other writers-for example, [Alberto] Moravia and [Elio] Vittorini-had them . . . In 1940 . . . I was recalled to the army as a war correspondent. Because of my articles from the Russian front . . . I was arrested in the Ukraine by the SS. I was one of the three Italian...
...Zablodowsky, who had previously denied Red ties, had a disingenuous explanation this time: "In 1935 I was terribly excited about Hitler and Nazism. It triggered me to action." The Communists were among "the very few people awake to the menace of Hitler" at the time. Had he helped the passport ring? "I did it unknowingly . . . It is possible...
...week's end the governments of India and Pakistan took an appalled look at the chaos they had created out of red tape. Prime Minister Nehru flew to the scene to see for himself. Then the Indian and Pakistan governments got together, decided to relax the new passport regulations for 15 days. It was a breathing space. No one was optimistic enough to think that in so short a time the masses of India and Pakistan could be made to understand the meaning of that mystery of modern travel, a passport visa...