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Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country ( 1946 ) was another highly successful Perkins find.
On 1 December 1917 at Gonnelieu, France, when a unit on Captain Paton's left was driven back, thus leaving his flank in the air and his company practically surrounded, he walked up and down adjusting the line, within 50 yards of the enemy, under a withering fire.
A judge ruled in his wife's favour and Mr. Paton's later request for a hearing before the European Court of Human Rights was also denied.
Paton's father, Yevhen Paton, was also famous for his works in electric welding.

Paton's and return
Interesting to note is that fewer than 1 % of ten thousand boys given home leave during Paton's years at Diepkloof ever broke their trust by failing to return.

Paton's and from
Paton wrote two autobiographies: Towards the Mountain deals with Paton's life leading up to and including the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country ( an event that changed the course of his life ) while Journey Continued takes its departure from that time onwards.
* Paton's lines = radial retinal lines cascading from the optic disc

Paton's and had
Paton's writer colleague Laurens van der Post, who had moved to England in the 1930s, helped the party in many ways.

Paton's and with
The editor Maxwell Perkins, noted for editing novels of Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, would guide Paton's first novel through publication with Scribner's.
Paton's second and third novels, Too Late the Phalarope ( 1953 ) and Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful ( 1981 ), and his short stories, Tales From a Troubled Land ( 1961 ), all deal with the same racial themes that concerned the author in his first novel.

Paton's and .
Their life together is documented in Paton's book Kontakion for You Departed, published in 1969.
Two recent publications of Paton's work include travel writing -- The Lost City of the Kalahari ( 2006 ); and a new complete selection of his shorter writings -- The Hero of Currie Road.
" Robert Garland, writing in the Journal American, similarly commented that " the beauty and simplicity of Paton's book infrequently comes through.
* Theophilus Msimangu, a character in Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country.
The Umkomaas river valley is mentioned in an early chapter of Alan Paton's 1948 novel Cry, The Beloved Country.
It sold over 15 million copies around the world before Paton's death.
The Continuing Church then said they would appeal Lady Paton's decision, but ultimately chose not to proceed.

passport and was
She was in Egypt during the revolution and had passport difficulty.
A man with the same name as those given by the FBI turned up alive in Saudi Arabia, saying that he had studied at the University of Denver and his passport was stolen there in 1995.
This was to ensure his eligibility to compete as part of the United States Olympic team, and was a critical issue in being issued an American passport.
His passport was issued in May, 1924.
Mihdhar was so eager to participate in jihad operations in the United States that he had already obtained a one-year B-1 / B-2 ( tourist / business ) multiple-entry visa from the consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 7, 1999, one day after obtaining a new passport.
A digital copy of one of Mihdhar's passports was later recovered during a search of an al-Qaeda safe house in Afghanistan, which held indicators, such as fake or altered passport stamps, that Mihdhar was a member of a known terrorist group.
With threats of an armed uprising against the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss ( he was assassinated by Nazis the following year ) and the killing of over 1, 000 civilians by troops, Philby's British passport became still more valuable.
She was granted Sudanese citizenship for her services to the country, becoming the first foreigner to receive a Sudanese passport.
One of its innovations in this latter area was the 1922 introduction of the Nansen passport, which was the first internationally recognized identity card for stateless refugees.
Lucy Komisar added that at the scene of the Mercedes-Benz crash where Çatlı died, he was found with a passport under the name of " Mehmet Özbay " — an alias also used by Mehmet Ali Ağca.
The EU court said the southern Dutch city of Maastricht was within its rights when it introduced a " weed passport " in 2005 to prevent foreigners from entering cafes that sell marijuana.
In the medieval Islamic Caliphate, a form of passport was used in the form of a bara ' a, a receipt for taxes paid.
Only citizens who paid their zakah ( for Muslims ) or jizya ( for Dhimmis ) taxes were permitted to travel to different regions of the Caliphate, thus the bara ' a receipt was a " traveller's basic passport.
The general reaction was the relaxation of passport requirements.
The passport of Satam al-Suqami was reportedly recovered " a few blocks from where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood "; a passerby picked it up and gave it to a NYPD detective shortly before the towers collapsed.
The passports of two other hijackers, Ziad Jarrah and Saeed al-Ghamdi, were recovered from the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, and a fourth passport, that of Abdulaziz al-Omari was recovered from luggage that did not make it onto American Airlines Flight 11.
" After spending a couple of days with John Esslemont, and after some passport difficulties he sailed from England on December 16 and arrived in Haifa on 29 December, and a few days later opened ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's Will and Testament, which was addressed to Shoghi Effendi.
The Nansen passport was developed as a result of a series of citizenship laws in European countries, including but not limited to the United Kingdom, Germany and France, that excluded millions of ethnic minorities, which were erstwhile residents in their countries, from attaining citizenship.
In addition to whatever political motivations Wright had for reporting to American officials, he was in the uncomfortable position of an American who did not want to go back to the United States and needed to have his passport renewed.
A Palestinian passport issued to Ramallah residents was not valid unless the serial number was registered with the Israeli authorities, who controlled border crossings.
Its most notable achievement was the Nansen passport, a passport for refugees, for which it was awarded the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize.

passport and confiscated
Your passport is confiscated.
Hinton was subjected to continual harassment by the FBI, his passport was confiscated, and he was barred from all teaching jobs.
* 16 April – Bishop Desmond Tutu is arrested and his passport is confiscated
While in London with wife Margarita and younger son, Medvedev was stripped of his Soviet citizenship and his passport was confiscated.
After refusing to testify before HUAC, Jarrico was blacklisted and his passport was confiscated.
He was the Soviet national team head coach in 1972, and was expected to coach the team at the 1972 Summer Olympic games, but the KGB confiscated his passport, fearing that, since Gomelsky was Jewish, that he would defect to Israel.

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