Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had so decided last November, when Russia offered Soviet citizenship to all former citizens of the Ukraine and White Russia. Shpihun and some 700 other British Columbians, who had come to Canada 20 years ago, grabbed it. None had ever become a Canadian citizen, few had ever lived in the U.S.S.R. Yet now they were filled with a deep yearning to go home and build "an orchard for the people of the U.S.S.R...
...premier. He also spent some time with rebel leader Soetomo, a fiery five-footer regarded by the Dutch as a most dangerous enemy. Soetomo's chief lieutenant was a pint-sized woman, about 50 years old, who said she was born on the Isle of Man, claimed U.S. citizenship through one of her marriages, and was variously known as Miss Tantri, Miss Daventry, Miss Merdeka (freedom), and Surabaya Sue (for her "freedom" broadcasts over the secret Indonesian radio...
...internal conditions of our country are chaotic. Our annual liquor bill runs between seven and eight billion dollars. Our crime bill amounts to 15 billions a year. . . . We refuse to face race problems. There are 13 million American Negroes who are only enjoying a second-rate citizenship. . . . And we don't have to look to the deep South to find people who believe in the supremacy of the white race...
...Sent to the White House a bill allowing all Filipinos in the U.S. to apply for citizenship, and permitting the entry of 100 Filipinos a year...
There are some 4,000 East Indians in the U.S. now. Of these, about 3,000 who arrived before the 1924 Immigration Act will be eligible for citizenship under the new law. Of the remainder, 360 are U.S. citizens by birth; others are temporary visitors as students, tourists or businessmen like Singh (a Manhattan importer...