Word: visaed
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...young refugee fled from Occupied France to Marseilles. No one there knew that Weidel was dead. At the Mexican Consulate they were wondering why the author had never turned up to claim the precious visa offered him by the Mexican Government. Gradually, the young refugee found himself stepping into the dead man's shoes. In Weidel's name he obtained the Mexican visa. Then he fell in love with a refugee woman, who was searching the Marseilles cafes for her husband. Her husband's name: Weidel...
...able to "dissipate the doubts" of the Board of Immigration Appeals as to her testimony that she was not a Communist. This dissipation is at best a six-month reprieve. To avoid deportation as an undesirable alien, she must now go to Canada or Mexico, wangle an immigration visa from a U.S. consul. If the consul says Yes, she is a suitable prospective citizen with no further doubts to dissipate...
...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...
...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...