Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-09-12
War to Smash Tourist
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London, I not only would have to
nave passport, the probabilities are
that l couldn't get one.
1 agree that an American should not
travel into a danger zone, and then,
II he's torpedoed, call on 13O.OOO,OOO
OF the rest of us to avenge him. All
the same, the change just goes to
show what the last war did for the
world. After the current one the
chances are that it'll take a passport
to Journey from township to town.
ship. 1t should knock the tar out of
tOuristism.
Tolerant Britain.
I recall another case:
This likewise was in the pre-1914-
10 war era. 1 knew a Spanish anar-
chlst then-a most lovable indivi-
dual, ii you didn't happen to be a
plutocrat. He'd been chased out of
Spain, and was an exile in Paris. The
French government took a notion to
deport him. 1t didn't send him back
to Spain, where he'd have faced a
firing squad, but it shipped him to
Dover.
On his arrival, the British port au-
thorities inquired: "HoW much money
have you got?"-the idea being to
determine whether or not he was
fixed to support himself. He had the
equivalent Of about 80 cents. "Then,'
observed the authorities, "Wc1l have
to return you to Calais" 'If you do"
said the anarchist, 'it's evident, that
I'll spend the rest of my life being
chI1ff1n6 fr0,1o CO1o f)
Dover to Calais and back and forth
indefinitely" "Well," rejoined the
port officials, 'we'll lock you up un-
til we get order from the home Of
fice,' (Which bosses English. i'm
migration).
They did it. From the home Of
flee came an immediate telegram.
''You dubs," in effect, "don't you
realize that this bird is no ordinary
immigrant? He's political refugee.
Let him in instantly"
You kinda like this liberality. It's
extinct though.
Sometimes Funny.
Latin governments always have
been more touchy than we Anglo
'Saxons. Occasionally they've been
funny.
One on a time, when l was Eu-
ropean manager for big American
news agency (my headquarters be-
ing in London). I had Paris cor
respondent Of the name F. Warning
ton Dawson. He quit and was sue
ceeded by William Philip Simms,
now a very Well-knoWn old world
commentator. HSimmsie," "Billphil," I"
as I called him, sent to the u. IS. A.
a dispatch that gave deep offense to
the French, and they decided to de-.
port him.
But they got him mixed with Daw-
son and issued their expulsion order
against the latter. Notified, Dawson
Ga corking loyal pro-Frenchman)
hastened, with an American dip
lomatic supporter, to headquarters to
explain himself. Upon conclusion of
the conversation the Gallo function
ary replied, "You don't talk like an
innocent man." Dawson was tex
pulSed'' and Simms never was.
IL. III. Gary aEPauper?
Latin Americas immigration re-
gulations went loco, among other
countries, as 1914-'18 war complex.
For instance, in my time in Ar
gentina. E. H. Gary sought to call in
on the republic. E. H. sGary!-the
steel magnete!-worth 80 or 40 mil
lion dollars. He had to give bond that
he wouldn't become a public charge.
He was able to do it, but he'd have
been stalled at the frontier other
wise. He was trying to enter .AEgen-
tina from Chile. The Argentine well
comes a good, class. of immigrants. un-
der so years old, but it's suspicious
of 'em above go, and Gary was past
the deadline.