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...endless ferryboat ride" was over. Last week, after 296 round trips, Michael Patrick O'Brien, the "stateless Irishman" who had been forced to ride the Hong Kong-Macao ferry continuously since Sept. 18, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), was whisked ashore and shipped off to Brazil. As O'Brien departed amid general sighs of relief, the Hong Kong police revealed that he was no Irishman at all, but a Hungarian named Istvan Ragan, whose youth had been passed largely in U.S. jails and reform schools, whose manhood was spent mostly in Shanghai's Blood Alley, where...
Back & forth, back & 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...
...name, he said, is Michael Patrick O'Brien, but he readily admitted: "Back home in Washington and Oregon, they call me Steven Stanley Regan." He never knew his father; his mother was Hungarian; the only identification he possesses is a Red Cross certificate which calls him "a stateless Irishman...
Until Israel's long-delayed nationalization law came into effect last month, residents of Israel remained citizens of their old countries, or were stateless. The law made citizens, if they so desired, of all the 1,400,000 resident Jews, whether immigrants or native-born. More than 20,000, including a handful of U.S.-born, did not so desire, preferring to keep their old citizenships-and passports. Some of these holdouts wanted to keep the right of re-entry into their native lands, or still had property there, or wanted the protection of bigger and stronger powers than Israel...
...Music-Hall Trouper Gracie Fields, a temporary victim of rheumatism and a bride of two months, announced that the British army had arranged for her to make an early summer singing tour of Korea. Would, her radio-tinkering husband Boris go along? Not likely, said Gracie, he is a stateless person without a passport. Besides, "he can't sing...