Word: visas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...total number of displaced persons now in Europe, he said, one-ninth are Jews. Fifteen percent of the Jews have stated a preference for going to America, 70 percent for Palestine, and 15 percent felt Palestine would be their choice were it easier to enter, with an American visa quite acceptable...
...From then on his role was that of many a Red agent-tours of duty in the Far East, in Spain with the Loyalists, back to Germany, then to France when Hitler rose to power. Eisler and his wife got out of France in 1941 on a U.S. transit visa, stayed in New York City when regulations blocked their intended journey to Mexico...
...Captain Walter Rull, 30, and his passengers (twelve men, five women), immigration authorities made the now-standard announcement: since none of the voyagers had an immigration visa, they could not enter the U.S. They were shepherded to a warehouse on Miami's Municipal Pier 2. Cots and food were donated by well-wishers. There the voyagers made themselves at home with the 29 other Estonians and one Finn who had landed from the Inanda and the Brill. For the time being, they seemed patient...
...ring. In London she met Anthony Eden, and this brought the Gestapo around. She told them what she has since told other snoopers: "I do not make politic." In St. Moritz for the skiing, Hilda was introduced to U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. He helped her get a visa...
...ATCman promptly lost it. So Sherrod bought another ticket and got to the airport just in time to watch his plane taking off (they had given him the wrong departure time). In Calcutta, nobody had even heard of his reservation for Manila. There, he found that his China visa had not arrived and, to make things more difficult, a brand new inoculation for plague had been ordered. That meant a seven-day wait. Meanwhile, the ATCman in New Delhi had found the original passage money he claimed Sherrod had not given him . . . etc. Eventually, Sherrod got to China...