Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much mystery still cloaks the Meyendorff case. New Republic, on September 15, reported that he had been refused a five year visa, and the date of his hearing is not known...
...indirectly. [For example, in South America where the post-1933 immigration has swelled the Jewish population about 30%, Argentina will now admit Jews only if they have relatives in the country; Bolivia bars "Semitic elements"; Brazil admits few but Catholics; Chile, Bolivia and Colombia clamped down after illegal visa scandals.] The era of . . . mass immigration that brought 2,460,495 Jews to the U.S. alone during the years 1881-1941 is now at an end. Apparently no country is willing to receive immigrants of this category in any sizable number...
Cast as a romantic Rumanian gambler and lady-charmer, Boyer finds himself on the wrong side of the Mexican-California border, waiting for the papers which will enable him to cross the line. Discovering that marrying an American woman will speed up his visa, he sets out to make the necessary arrangements. The prey turns out to be an American school-marm. Olivia de Haviland, on a Mexican holiday. This marriage of convenience eventually results, as you might have guessed in the suave Boyer's falling for the theoretically naive charms of Miss brown of Azusa, California. Paulette Goddard...
...middle-aged man packed in a stack of paintings. Hysterical from being stood upside down for seven hours, the man was taken, gabbling incoherent French, to the Jervis Street Hospital. There he identified himself as Maurice Carassus de Laboujac, 40, a French painter who, unable to secure a passport visa, had shipped himself as freight to his own Dublin exhibition...
Very few facts can be gathered about Meyendorff's case. The New Republic of September 15 stated that he has been trying to get a visa for five years, and an article printed in the Boston Post some months ago revealed that Russia refused to take him back...