In his book "Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars" [1] historian Paul Fussell devotes a whole chapter to "The Passport Nuisance": > As a fixture

In his book "Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars" [1] historian Paul Fussell devotes a whole chapter to "The Passport Nuisance": > As a fixture of the european scene since 1915, the passport now seems so natural that one forgets the shock and scandal it once occasioned. Robert Byron is one who treated his with a due contempt. In the space asking about "Any special peculiarities," he entered "Of Melancholy appearance," and in the square reserved for a photograph of bearer's wife he drew a ludicrous cartoon, "resulting," Anthory Powell recalls, "in the document being withdrawn." [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154471.Abroad https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154471.Abroad