Word: visaed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dozen writers and painters-including Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse -dutifully responded to a cable from Charles Chaplin asking them to protest the deportation* to Germany of Hollywood Composer Hanns Eisler. To the Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...
...unintended catch in the net was visiting Scripps-Howard Correspondent William H. Newton, who wanted to take a plane out the day after the census. He needed an exit visa to leave Iraq...
...cannot get an exit visa because it is night and the Government offices are all closed," explained the American to an air line agent. "They will not be open tomorrow because of the census. And the plane leaves early the next morning." "This is true," said the agent. Then he smiled: "Ah, you must get the exit visa this morning." "How can I get the exit visa this morning when it is already tonight?" asked Newton...
...sorry, you must get the exit visa this morning," said the agent firmly. "This is the rule...
Pattern for Travel. They found it surprisingly easy to get around: only Kerr (who had offended the Yugoslavs with an earlier story) had visa trouble, and only in Yugoslavia were people unwilling to talk. In Helsinki, Attwood got nowhere with some Communists until he mentioned the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild; the Finns were first astonished ("How can you belong to a union and work for a capitalist paper?"), then friendly...