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...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...
...passport deadline approached last week, a panic-stricken exodus began. About 6,000 Moslems in India fled eastward into East Pakistan. Out of East Pakistan tramped 70,000 Hindus. They came on foot along dusty roads, carrying young and aged, with household goods loaded in bullock carts or in large bundles balanced on their heads. They crammed into train compartments or perched precariously on undercarriage beams. Thousands fled by steamer to Calcutta or jammed into buses. They clogged the roads and small wayside stations and spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside...
...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...
When Kansas-born Earl Browder, No. 1 open Communist in the U.S., was freed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 after serving 14 months of a four-year term for passport fraud, the comrades and New Dealers cheered F.D.R.'s magnanimity...