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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...
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...
Dadaist Duchamp's account of his own flight sounded like a whimsically eventful Cook's tour. He said he posed as a cheese merchant, got out of Occupied France without any trouble at all, finally got a U.S. visa in Marseille on the strength of an affidavit from a friend in Hollywood (Author Walter Conrad Arensburg, who bought his Nude Descending...
After escaping the grasping tentacles of the Gestapo in Poland, Lednicki became an aid of the Polish government in exile at Anjou in France and was in Paris when Marshal Potain announced the Armistice in June 1940. Securing a transit visa from a kind French official he journeyed to Lisbon, where he received an American visa and came here to assume a post offered him by Harvard...
After waiting two years for a United States visa, de Hoffman sailed on a small freighter in the middle of a British convoy. "When attacked for the first time," he related, "we were some 300 miles off the coast of Western Ireland on a fairly clear night...