Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...holds the scales. Too many liberal minds can be swayed by nightmares of a coming purge. Too many conservatives can ease their conscience in the pure and American conduct of the trial. But the error is not in the conviction but in the charge. The real question is whether passport violation should have been pressed in the first place...
...YORK Karl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party today was helped along a road which may lead to his imprisonment for passport fraud by a mild-looking, chubby old man who has admitted serving as an espionage agent of the Red Army...
...November evening two British agents were jerked to Germany by the Gestapo, which caught them just inside the Dutch border. They were Captain Richard Henry Stevens, chief of the British passport office at The Hague and alleged head of the British Intelligence Service on the Continent, and Sigismund Payne Best, socially prominent Hague representative of various foreign firms. Nazi sources let it be understood that these two gentlemen were suspected of interest if not complicity in the Munich Bürgerbräu Keller attempt on Adolf Hitler; that, held in Berlin, Captain Stevens was "confessing" volubly to sabotage activities...