Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he had married a Jewess. When the Nazis took over, his wife divorced him for his sake, but without his knowledge. He came to the U.S. via Japan, then sent for his wife and remarried her. After Pearl Harbor the FBI seized Schwieger as an enemy alien; he was held for 401 days until friends got him out. The day he came home from jail, his wife dropped dead...
...Alien Sin. The war brought Peggy and Surrealist Max Ernst together in Marseilles. Says she: "He had white hair and big blue eyes and a handsome, beaklike nose resembling a bird's. He was exquisitely made. . . . When I began my affair with Max Ernst it was not serious but soon I discovered that I was in love with him." They fled to the U.S. together, and while Ernst painted feathered nudes, Peggy got her Manhattan gallery under...
They were married after Pearl Harbor, because Ernst was German and Peggy "did not like the idea of living in sin with an enemy alien. . . . Max could not understand English and when he was asked to wed me, he understood wet, which he repeated...
Where Shall the U.S. Stand? Said Vandenberg: "There is a line beyond which compromise cannot go. ... But how can we expect our alien friends to know where that line is unless we reestablish the habit of saying only what we mean and meaning every word...
...bodies of Catholic immigrants: foreign-language groups, especially the Germans, demanded a clergy of their own origin and language. A large part of the hierarchy, led by the Irish, considered this a dangerous trend. They knew that Catholicism in the U.S. labored under a widespread suspicion of being an alien creed, that the Church could prosper only by doing its utmost to Americanize the immigrants and adapting its policies to those of the young democracy...