Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which still bars natives of 13 countries and colonies* from citizenship, got ready last week to open the door to immigrants from India. Passed by the House and approved in Senate committee was a bill-sponsored by Representatives Clare Boothe Luce and Emanuel Celler, and Senators Joe Ball and Arthur Capper -permitting a maximum of 100 Indians to enter the country each year as prospective citizens...
...your editorial, "U.N. or You Ain't," in the issue of May 7, you state: "Wars and rumors of wars can be eliminated by nothing short of an international state with world wide citizenship..." You state further: "Gradually, as the nations acquire more and more trust in it, U. N. can wield ever increasing power...
...even its most passionate defenders claim that U.N. is the ultimate solution to the world's troubles. Wars and rumors of wars can be climinated by nothing short of an international state with world wide citizenship; but there is not possibility that within the foreseeable future, certainly within this generation, the world powers will be willing to entrust their sovereignty and security to a federal organization...
...than two million Chinese and some 750,000 Indians outnumber the two million easygoing Malays. Many of the industrious Chinese have since advanced far beyond the latter in education and have established thriving businesses of their own. In Britain's plan for self-government and federation with equal citizenship for all, inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula fear that they would become a minority in a Chinese-dominated state...
...case was settled when Rubinstein paid over about $2,250,000 to the stockholders. But it caused U.S. immigration authorities to pounce: they found that Serge had adopted the new name for use, as he explained, "on formal occasions," that he had changed his Russian citizenship for Portuguese. A passport-fraud charge could not be made to stick. But his draft board hopes to be more successful...