Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the 70,000-odd U.S. citizens living in Canada have voted in recent Canadian elections, and have thus automatically lost their U.S. citizenship. Most did so through 1) ignorance of the law, and 2) inefficiency of Canadian election officials. (Technically, only "British subjects" may vote in Canada, but seldom is any attempt made to check that qualification.) Said one expatriate: "We had to pay taxes so we figured we could just go ahead and vote...
Last week the U.S. Consulate in Toronto announced that expatriated Americans may regain their lost citizenship simply by applying to any U.S. diplomatic officer in Canada before next Aug. 7. For the repatriation process, Ottawa's Le Droit coined the word-of-the-week: "reyankification...
...conceived it, and become at last the guarantor of justice to all sorts and conditions of men; imperium, the principle of a dominion that can enable all manner of races, languages and faiths to live together within the bounds of a single system of ordered rule, and of a citizenship that, though it may begin as the privilege of a governing race, will gradually be extended until it is enjoyed by all; and pax, the product of the other two, the belief in the mission of imperial government, based evenly upon the foundations of justice and national authority, to bring...
...want to get into a public brawl and be accused of Red-hunting. Its six-man screening committee moved cautiously, marked many dismissals for "incompetence" or other causes. Added to the ousted 40 were 39 others who were dropped because they were aliens or did not meet citizenship requirements. More than 200 others were put down as ineligible for permanent employment...
...Hollywood the Warner Brothers were peeved. Reasons: 1) an unfavorable review of their Cole Porter picture Night & Day in LIFE; 2) a TIME story on Warners' celebration of the talkies' 20th anniversary. Last week the brothers Warner-whose slogan is "combining good citizenship with good picture making"-barred the staffs of both magazines from their studios and their previews...