Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Affairs In Paris, Garry Davis, 26, solemn-minded son of bouncy Bandleader Meyer, had had time to think things over. It had been three months since he renounced his U.S. citizenship to underline his enthusiasm for world government (TIME, June 7). After a talk with his sister last week he explained why he might come back to the U.S. (the State Department will probably not be too tough about it): "It is not my purpose to create doubt and confusion...
...psychiatrists have offered their services to the world's politicians. Last week in London the psychiatrists, psychologists and educators attending the International Congress on Mental Health (TIME, Aug. 23) got around to the vexing subject of "world citizenship and group relations."* Unless war is prevented, Cornell University Psychiatrist Carl Binger told the delegates, "there will not be any world to be citizens...
...Only his guide, his family and his Post-Gazette editors knew what Sprigle was up to. "From then on," he wrote, "until I came up out of the South four weeks later, I was black, and in bondage-not quite slavery but not quite freedom, either. My rights of citizenship ran only as far as the nearest white man said they...
...starred "Peace Ship" expedition to Europe in 1915; in Manhattan. Convinced that War I could be ended by a meeting of peace pilgrims, she induced Ford to head the U.S. delegation, pledged to "getting the boys out of the trenches by Christmas." In 1929 she was denied citizenship by the U.S. Supreme Court because she refused to say that she would bear arms in defense...
...Channing Tobias, Negro educator and member of the President's Civil Rights Commission: "I say the issue is simple because it is this: either Negro Americans are citizens of the United States or they are not. If they are, then they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship. If they are not, then it is only fair that our government publish to the world that it has two classes of citizens...