What a journey asked of a passport
The same journeys Passage prints tickets for, read against a British passport valid for all countries, first under the Paris rules of 1920, then under the Geneva rules of 1926. A liner's ports of call ask nothing; a train or an aeroplane lands its passengers in every country on the way.
Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.
What a journey asked of a passport
| Journey | In 1925 | In 1933 |
|---|---|---|
| London → New York | entrance: United States | entrance: United States |
| London → Cairo | entrance: Egypt | entrance: Egypt ; transit: France, Italy, Greece |
| London → Bombay | no visa | transit: France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Iraq |
| Paris → Constantinople | entrance: Turkey ; transit: Switzerland, Italy, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Bulgaria | entrance: Turkey ; transit: Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria |
| London → Baghdad | no service | entrance: Iraq ; transit: France, Italy, Greece, Egypt |
| London → Shanghai | entrance: China ; transit: United States | entrance: China ; transit: France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Iraq |
| paris → moscow | no service | no service |
| New York → Buenos Aires | entrance: Argentina ; transit: Cuba, Chile | entrance: Argentina ; transit: Cuba, Panama, Chile |
| Arkham → Cairo | entrance: Egypt ; transit: Italy | entrance: Egypt ; transit: Italy |
A British subject needs no visa where the British consul would be the one to give it (India, Egypt until 1921, Iraq under the mandate): that rule is still to be confirmed.
Still to be confirmed
- A British subject needs no visa where the British consul would be the one to give it (India, Egypt until 1921, Iraq under the mandate): that rule is still to be confirmed.. What would settle it: a consular instruction or a dated visa showing who issued visas for a colony, a mandate and a dominion; the dominions ran their own immigration and are the likeliest exception.
Sources
- League of Nations, Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, Resolution adopted by the Conference on Passports, Customs Formalities and Through Tickets in Paris on October 21st, 1920 (Passport Conference, Preparatory Documents II), C.641.M.230.1925.VIII (read directly)
- League of Nations, Passport Conference held at Geneva from May 12th to 18th, 1926: Final Act, C.320.M.119.1926.VIII, Official Journal, August 1926, pp. 1088-1097 (read directly)
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