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...Zionist Organization, also known as the Jewish Fascists. This young men's society, a terrorist group in its original Polish homeland, believes in the Old Testament eye-&-tooth principle when dealing with both British and Arabs. The New Zionists' politics are repugnant to both the British Passport Office and the Zionist-operated Central Palestine Bureau. So visa applications to Palestine are invariably combed to eliminate the Jewish Fascists. A few have nevertheless slipped through...
...American youth of Austrian parentage, Guenther Gustave Rumrich, formerly a sergeant in the U. S. Army, and a plump German fräulein, Johanna Hofmann. Rumrich's blundering offense was describing himself as "Mr. Weston, Under Secretary of State," a nonexistent character, while applying to the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan for 50 blank passports. Fräulein Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa, was allegedly his accomplice, in a capacity, for which nature had not fitted her, of lure. On the strength of its coup, the Department of Justice asked for a grand jury investigation...
...high seas, bound for Germany. At first glance, it appeared that this escape of Ignatz from a hair net was a brilliant piece of work. The assumption proved unwarranted. In his haste to leave, Dr. Griebl, naturalized in 1926, had forgotten to take along his U. S. passport. At Cherbourg French authorities were denied permission to search the ship for him. When the Bremen docked in Germany, he was promptly arrested, fined 60 marks ($25) permitted to remain. Reporters jumped to the conclusion that Griebl, ready to turn state's evidence, had been kidnapped by loyal spies...
...Mink" is notorious George Mink, alias Minkoff, who, according to the U. S. State Department, has a valid U. S. passport. He worked for Yellow Cab Co. in Philadelphia from 1928 until 1933. A Philadelphia cabby who had then known him said last week: "'The Mink' was a Red, all right! He was always startin' arguments, and they were so silly you'd get all burned up and lose your head. He hasn't got the brains of a flea! He won't kill nobody...
Nearly half of Vienna's 25-member Anglo-American Press Association found it wise to get out of Vienna-or were bluntly ordered to leave. International News Service's Alfred Tyrnauer, an Austrian Jew, was arrested in the cable office while filing a story, his passport confiscated, his detention ordered; when the U. S. Legation took note, he was released for transfer to the Paris I. N. S. office. The New York Times's, bureau chief, G. E. R. Gedye, who had spent 13 years in Vienna, was ordered to leave the country in three days...