Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kassel, Germany, Harvardman Henry Martyn Noel Jr., 24, disclosed that he had renounced his U.S. citizenship and become a "citizen of the world." He was living over a pigsty, working as a bricklayer for a German construction company. Said he: "Now that I am no longer allied with [national interests] ... I feel I can come closer to the true spirit...
...world citizenship and his hatred of militarism, dictatorship and violence," Albert Einstein got the Wendell Willkie One World Award...
...Soviet Union was destroyed root and branch. Hebrew is a banned language in Russia. Zionist leaders were imprisoned when the Russians took over Poland during the war. The Kremlin has consistently denounced Zionism, ironically enough as the "tool of British imperialism." Jewish refugees who have been offered citizenship in the Soviet Union have consistently refused, preferring to take their chances of getting to Palestine...
...Intense idealism" as explained by his mother has obliged a 24-year-old ex-College man to give up his American citizenship and become a German laborer, AMG officials in Frankfurt disclosed yesterday...
...witness in these times a climax of nationalism," Noel was quoted as writing. "Citizenship in a nation being tacit acceptance and approval of this situation, or else ignorance of these facts, has become intolerable and incompatible with my personal conventions," he concluded...