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Whether rigged or not, Diez's trial shed bright light on the sorry business of selling sanctuary in South America to European refugees. Reports from Lisbon tell of Latin-American passports selling for as high as $3,000, auctioned off by the unsalaried consuls of small nations. In Berlin, Warsaw, Kaunas or Stockholm the pattern is the same. Some consuls were reported busily selling citizenship over the counter, then adding the stipulation that the refugee never enter his adopted country. The Japanese liner Ginyo Maru, which docked in Panama three weeks ago, was filled with Jewish refugees...
...airlines subsidiary in 1937. resolved to fly the Atlantic. This made it a natural enemy of Pan Am. Round I ended in the Senate corridors last September when the Appropriations Committee unexpectedly failed to provide $500,000 that was to start Am Ex's preliminary mail flights to Lisbon (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, undaunted Am Ex officials rolled with this punch. Led by quick-smiling, deep-voiced Vice President James Murchie Eaton, they went to Baltimore, threw a party aboard their new ocean freighter S.S. Executor. While 60 guests ogled the boat, Am Ex bigwigs huddled with Baltimore...
...story we had smuggled out that way was the one about the phenomenal rise in suicides among French Jews since the Nazi occupation. The bodies of many of these unfortunate people were found one morning floating in Marseilles harbor, and an obliging diplomat smuggled the news to Lisbon in his shaving kit next...
Last week scores of German and Austrian novelists, poets, journalists and thinkers still besieged the U. S. consulate at Lisbon, Portugal, trying to escape their Nazi pursuers by getting into...
...other writers the Exiled Writers Committee was only too ready to claim a share. Such were grave Heinrich Mann (Thomas' brother and author of more than a dozen novels) and Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh). As they bumped over the rough autumn waves from Lisbon a few weeks ago, the two novelists hugged themselves over their narrow escape from the Nazis. One day out from...