Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hjalmar Johan Procopé entered a side door of the gloomy old State Department, was ushered into the office of the protocol chief, bald, urbane George T. Summerlin. Fifteen minutes later Mr. Procopé hurried out, brusque and ruffled. The Finnish Minister to the U.S. had been handed his passport, had been told to get out of the country as soon as he could arrange it. Thus, in a way almost unprecedented in U.S. history,* ended the Washington career of the man who only a few years ago was the capital's most lionized diplomat...
...time he reached Chicago, Father Orlemanski had decided to turn the other cheek. The idea for the trip, he said, was his own. Last January he wrote Secretary of State Cordell Hull asking for a passport to visit Russia "to investigate for myself and study the Polish question." He wrote twice before he received a reply. Then he was referred to Manhattan's Russian consulate. To Father Orlemanski's intense surprise, the answer came not from Manhattan but from Moscow-"direct from Marshal Stalin personally inviting me to come to Russia...
...side in the Polish controversy to violently anti-Russian U.S. Poles. From Moscow, New York Timesman Ralph Parker noted that the Russians would find a Catholic priest's help handy in placating Poland's intensely religious Catholics. In Washington, the State Department curtly explained the passport: it was issued at the request of a "friendly Government...
...June 1940 famed Continental Actor Karlweis pretty much played Jacobowsky in real life. Karlweis was in Paris without a passport when the Nazis smashed toward it. He started south in his tiny Citroën. When "that old rat" Pétain took over, Karlweis plunged desperately on. Says he: "I was a very lucky man." Someone who had admired him in a movie helped him get a transit visa to Spain. From there another admirer helped get him to Portugal. Three months later he was in Manhattan...
Earl Browder, No. 1 U.S. Communist, brought a libel suit against the Philadelphia Record, which had called him a "convicted perjurer." Convicted three years ago of obtaining a passport by misrepresentation and fraud, he demanded $100,000 damages, as a "person of good fame, name, credit and reputation...