Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technically embassy clerks are not diplomatically immune. But Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, aware that Washington grants a courtesy immunity to all embassy personnel, refused to surrender Ruess. The Russians insisted. Ambassador Smith demanded an exit visa for his clerk. The Russians refused. Last week, with Clerk Ruess confined to Embassy grounds, the khuligan crisis was at a standoff. Meanwhile, spy-suspect Redin, under $10,000 bail bond, was awaiting trial (on June...
...Joseph Stalin to get accredited to Moscow. Even before he left New York, the Times began going through the red tape necessary to get his successor in. Last week the Times succeeded. It had taken nearly a year and the intercession of U.S. Ambassador "Beedle" Smith to get the visa. Said Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Vishinsky to Beedle Smith: "The New York Times is not particularly friendly to Russia...
Everybody seemed to want a U.S. visa. In 14 U.S. consulates, from Halifax to Vancouver, hard-pressed clerks interviewed Canadians, laboriously filled out long forms, took fingerprints of prospective new Americans. Last week consular officials paused to look at the record. In the last six months of 1945 they had okayed permanent visas for 8,767 Canadians, turned down thousands of others. If the present pressure continued, 20,000 Canadians will migrate to the U.S. in the 1945-46 fiscal year. Not since 1931 had so many Canadians pulled up stakes and moved south...
Latins, busily fashioning ways of attracting the tourist dollar, had two chief preoccupations: 1) lack of "first-class accommodations" (hotel rooms in Mexico City and Rio were as scarce as in New York); 2) irksome passport and visa requirements. Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala and Uruguay had made entry easy. Most other Latin American countries...
...Metropolitan Opera's under-lunged Italian tenor wing has been huffing & puffing, in a vain attempt to bring the house down, ever since 1941. That was when the Met's Swedish mainstay, Jussi Björling, was refused a transit visa to cross Nazi-occupied countries. Björling stayed in Sweden, packed the red and gold Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Last week 34-year-old Tenor Björling reached the U.S. by plane, the first European artist to return to the Met's roster since the war began...