| 单词 |
Nansen passport |
| 释义 |
Nansen passport
[f. name of Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian diplomat and explorer, who was responsible for the issue of the papers described below.]
A document of identification issued after the war of 1914–18 to a stateless person ineligible for a passport. Also absol.
1925Measures to help Refugees: Rep. 5th Comm. to 6th Assembly League of Nations 1 After lengthy negotiations, the Refugee Service has secured recognition for the Nansen Passports from forty Governments in the case of Russians and from twenty-eight in the case of Armenians. 1932J. B. C. Watkins tr. Sörensen's Saga F. Nansen 285 Nansen called together representatives from the various governments to a meeting at Geneva in July 1922. Thirty-one were represented, and they accepted Nansen's proposal for an identification certificate for each refugee which could be used as a passport. Fifty-two governments have recognized these certificates, which are stamped with Nansen's picture and known as ‘Nansen passports’. They may be obtained by Armenian, Chaldean, Turkish, and Syrian refugees. 1944H. G. Wells '42 to '44 50 The practical organization of the Nansen passports that were for a time a resort for the multitude of people who had lost their national standing through changes of boundaries and similar dislocations. 1958Spectator 14 Feb. 209/2 The ‘Nansen passport’ was one result. 1975L. Dickson Radclyffe Hall at Well of Loneliness xvii. 215 Souline had only a ‘Nansen’, a letter of identity not a passport, allowing her to reside in France. Ibid. 220 The long process of obtaining for Souline British naturalization papers, a first step in which was to exchange her French ‘Nansen’ for an English ‘Nansen’. |
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