Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report to the Cairo governate. There I was ushered in to see another plainclothesman in what I presumed was the security police office. I asked him who he was and why he had summoned me and he said, 'You have applied for a new residence visa and I must ask you some questions.' I told him I had already received the visa. He was somewhat abashed. His questioning, mainly about my home and family, led nowhere and after he again refused to say who he was or why I had been summoned, I politely excused myself and departed...
Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...
Hunted Past. How he fared he told in the final issue of the Bell. "Having been in the U.S. before, I took it the visa would be readily forthcoming . . . I am preeminently the aging, kindly gentleman that should pass in & out of any county unnoticed." Actually, he was not that Milquetoasty: he had fought for the republic in 1918, been caught and condemned to death, escaped by setting fire to the jail. One of his novels (The Way It Was With Them) was chosen a book of-the-month (1928) by the Catholic Book Club of America...
This week New York's United Irish Counties Association went to his rescue. It called the refusal of a visa "a masterpiece of ambiguity." And since O'Donnell was a "government official" (he is a member of Eire's Commission of Immigration), the association thought the ruling looked very much like an affront to the government of Eire...
Sometimes World Without Visa trembles on the edge of ten-twent'-thirt' melodrama, sometimes it seems incongruously romantic in its motivations. But all such objections are ultimately swept aside by the power with which Malaquais has raised a verbal monument to the martyrdom of Europe...