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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • My _laisser-passer_ had been promised for ten o'clock.

    A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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