Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumanian-born Philippe Guecht, 40, who believed that "war was the only road to peace": "I have chosen Soviet citizenship . . . and [hope] to find work as a show producer. I believe that Russia is the only country where liberty and art really exist...
...stranger was Achille Murat, son of King Joachim of Naples, and nephew of Napoleon. His father had already died before a firing squad, his uncle had been banished to St. Helena, when Murat applied for U.S. citizenship, and settled in the Territory of Florida. He drank steadily until his death at 46, speculated heavily, sired a number of mulatto Murats, married a great-grandniece of George Washington. Usually embarrassed for funds, he was once arrested on a charge of cattle stealing. But he was also sober citizen enough to be admitted to the Florida bar and to dabble in Florida...
...says he doesn't approve of terrorism but can understand the Jews' bitterness and despair. To write Thieves in the Night he drew on two years of banging around in the Near East (20 years ago) as a correspondent for a German paper. He took out Palestine citizenship then, spent nine months in Jewish communes in Palestine last year as a refresher. Says he: "It is idiotic to compare British politics in Palestine with the Nazis. It is not a matter of ill will but of muddling, timidity and lack of a farsighted policy. I believe commonsense, morality...
...time you will become scientists or engineers or humanists or economists or doctors. . . . What we can do for you is of no lasting importance if we have not taught you that citizenship comes first today in our crowded world. . . . No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is to be noble...
...that Conant is wholly occupied with Harvard's adjustment-in science, international studies, social relations and citizenship-to the Atomic Age, some of his former Washington associates wonder if that is the most useful spot for him. In retrospect they are more than ever impressed with his facility for learning "through the pores," for quickly grasping human as well as scientific problems-and they are quietly talking about Conant's presidential potentialities. Nobody has asked Jim Conant what he thinks, but at 53 he still has a zest for adventure...