Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Menotti, a lean, dark-eyed, hungry-looking man of 38, got the idea for his new opera from reading about a refugee who committed suicide when she was turned down for a visa. Says Menotti: "I know we must have some bureaucracy . . . but I cannot abide little people who, given a little power, wield it inflexibly and cruelly...
...immigration officials have already begun to tighten the fence against "undesirables." Typical was the case of one Nikola Martinovic, who flew into London from Switzerland last week, described himself as a political refugee from Tito's Yugoslavia seeking asylum in Britain. When immigration inspectors told him that his visa had expired, he shouted wildly: "I don't want to go back! I will commit suicide if you send me back to Yugoslavia!" After a night under guard, Martinovic was put on a plane bound for Switzerland. Over St. Quentin, France, he opened a door of the plane, jumped...
...arrested and charged with entering the U.S. under false pretenses; i.e., he had said he was not in favor of violently overthrowing the government. These charges were dropped, but when Strachey arrived in New York again in 1938, he was held at Ellis Island for two weeks because his visa had been canceled while he was en route. The U.S. consul general in London had canceled the visa because he was "convinced that [Strachey] is a member ... of the executive committee of the British Communist Party." Strachey denied this and a U.S. circuit court of appeals later ruled that...
...three men argued briefly about a visa for another exile who wanted to go to Spain. When Gallostra said he had given their friend money and a letter of recommendation, but could not give him a visa, Fleitas flared up. "That's just like you Franco swine," he shouted. Then he yanked out a .38 automatic and shot Gallostra in the stomach. As Gallostra doubled over, Fleitas switched the pistol to his left hand and shot him through the head. "I killed him!" he shouted...
Garry Davis, 27, who tore up his U.S. passport in June 1948 to become a "citizen of the world," was trying to return to his native land. In Strasbourg, France, he applied at the U.S. consulate for an immigration visa, was told to go to Paris to get it. Davis said he was "astounded" at the news that Audrey Peters, 20, a Hollywood dancing teacher he had written to but never met, had announced her engagement to him. Dancer Peters said she started corresponding with Davis six months ago and "things got out of control . . . you know...