Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the Nazis smashed toward it. He started south in his tiny Citroën. When "that old rat" Pétain took over, Karlweis plunged desperately on. Says he: "I was a very lucky man." Someone who had admired him in a movie helped him get a transit visa to Spain. From there another admirer helped get him to Portugal. Three months later he was in Manhattan...
...Santiago, Chile, exiled ex-President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador applied to the Ecuadorian Embassy for a visa to go home. He explained that he had been proposed as candidate of the Conservative and Socialist parties in the June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return...
Before a correspondent can even apply for a passport he must get permission from his local draft board to leave the country-and after the passport comes through the visa rush begins. Manthorp got one correspondent visas for thirteen countries in a single day, but some governments are not so easy. For example, no visa for India is granted without a cabled O.K. from New Delhi, and Portugal is even harder...
...alliance with Russia. At British and perhaps U.S. prompting, he stayed in London. Alexander E. Bogomolov, Russian Ambassador to the Allied Governments in Exile in London, asked to go to Algiers to establish contact with the French Com mittee of National Liberation. The British gave him the required exit visa; U.S. authorities for more than a month refused him permission to enter Algiers. Only last week was the Ambassador allowed to proceed with his mission...
Nazi Restraint. The self-effacing but worldly-wise McKittrick was in the U.S. this year-he came out through southern France before the Nazis occupied it, and returned through Italy on a diplomatic visa (which the State Department did not obtain for him). While in the U.S. he did not comment on the fact that the Nazis refrain from using the Axis majority on the board of directors for unneutral undertakings. To all such queries he replied: "Remember, I'm neutral." Once he amplified this: "The policy of the bank can only be to remain entirely outside all matters...