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This will need to be updated constantly, and should include basic details such as full name, nationality, date of birth, passport and laisser-passer numbers with date and place of issue.
23. Staff Safety 1999
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What we understand by a tradition of moderation was, where public affairs impinged on individual conduct, nothing more than a laisser-passer to the concentration camp.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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Ministry of War this morning, and Colonel Commandant Duval, chief of the press bureau there, gave me a _laisser-passer_ to enter the
Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard
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Mr. Dunn went on a train with his bicycle last week, provided only with a _laisser-passer_ for Aulnay in the Department of the North.
Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard
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But to leave these countries and cities they had to be provided with a passport -- hardly an American among them had such a document -- and with a laisser-passer to be obtained from the police and countersigned by military authorities, after strict interrogation.
The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919
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My _laisser-passer_ had been promised for ten o'clock.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918
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As a measure of precaution I added another _laisser-passer_ to my collection, with a beautiful photograph on it.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918
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The note and _laisser-passer_ had arrived at the Legation about one o'clock in the morning, and had looked so important that the slaves waked the Minister from a deep sleep to receive them.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918
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Then we argued the matter out again from the beginning, and after a quarter of an hour of joint debate I went over to see von der Lancken and press for the _laisser-passer_.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918
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I told of my experience and asked that I be furnished by the military authorities with a _laisser-passer_ which would enable me to enter the
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918
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