Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's Supreme Court last week issued a notice of peculiar interest to potent foreigners. Hereafter they, like Germans, may be seized at Nazi discretion and subjected to "irreparable sterilization." Reassuring German tourist agents at once explained that a foreigner sentenced to be sterilized would instead probably be deported by the Government. Last week the total number of Germans sterilized in the two years of Nazidom remained a State secret, but addition of partial figures released from time to time proved a sterile total of well over...
Romance is the chief advertised product of Tahiti. According to French tourist agencies, Tahiti, "Pearl of the Pacific," has everything Hawaii has, and its biggest village Papeete (pop.: 7,000) is "The Paris of the South Seas." Local realtors rent tourists seaside cottages outside Papeete, complete with female cook. Any native girl found on Papeete's streets after 9 o'clock at night is given a prostitute's card and a weekly physical examination. The Tahitians themselves have no words in their language for either prostitution or love...
French officialdom rules Tahiti with blue laws that are only half-heartedly enforced. The natives are required not to drink spirits, steal openly, sing after 9 p. m., kill their unwanted babies. The one prohibition that has really hurt the tourist trade has been that of taking monkey-toed Tahitian girls out of their pareus and putting them into cheap print dresses. Last week this matter reached Paris and French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin, a Parisian who has lately been preaching cooperation with the colonies, for the sake of French exports...
...acute is Japanese spy mania today, so galling are restrictions and indignities imposed upon tourists, that Japanese tourist agencies recently petitioned the Ministry of Interior for relief. The best they could get was this significant order to Japanese detectives* and police: "It is intimated that in future it will not be necessary to look upon all foreigners traveling in Japan as spies...
...copy of TIME would have revealed a multitude of finger prints, no toe prints, to delight TIME'S smart circulation sleuths (TIME, Oct. 22, pp. 36?37). . . . (Carried into a crowded, companionable Moscow tram, bright TIME starts more discussions than a tourist in kilts). Zipping through to Moscow with letter speed (record: 11 days), TIME tempts local scribes to translate its pungent Americana days before exchange editors digest slow-moving newspapers. . . . ROBERT S. CARR...