Word: visas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago when the Soviet Government asked the British Government to remove its consulate from Leningrad, the British, who do not like to be dictated to, quietly announced that hereafter the only place in Russia where anyone could get a British visa would be at His Britannic Majesty's consulate in Leningrad. Last week, the Russians, who also do not like to be dictated to, again asked for the closing of the British consulate in Leningrad. "Under protest" Britain acceded, thereby shutting off the only source of British visas for all except diplomats, who can get them from...
...today in Soviet jails and for years German diplomatic & consular officials have not been allowed to see them. The U. S. State Department, fully aware of all this, forehandedly reminded Moscow that, although Mrs. Rubens entered Russia on a fraudulent U. S. passport, it was stamped with an authentic visa...
...close down in manyparts of the Soviet Union. Finally it demanded that the British consul and his staff at Leningrad clear out. Last week the British Foreign Office quietly informed Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that hereafter the only place in Russia where anyone can get a British visa will be His Britannic Majesty's Consulate in Leningrad...
...deportation warrant charging him with illegal entry into the U. S. Upon intervention of Idaho's Senator Borah, who stays at the Robinson home when in Moscow, the charge was dropped. His status regularized by a trip to Cuba last summer, from which he returned on an immigration visa. Doc Robinson is currently awaiting naturalization papers...
...steel industry for the first time in history and in a twelvemonth built a labor organization the equal of the old A. F. of L. in size and power, its superior in leadership. The measure of his achievement is that his two runners-up were his two visa-vis : 1) Chairman Myron Charles Taylor who without a blow being struck negotiated for the unionization of great U. S. Steel Corp. and 2) President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel who battled John L. Lewis to the last ditch and largely prevented the complete unionization of the steel industry...