Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friendly black cat who sleeps on the birds' cages. Though he has never written for films, he has composed for almost everything else. He wrote ballets for Ringling Brothers' Circus and for Billy Rose (Scenes de Ballet), a dissonantly reharmonized Star-Spangled Banner (to celebrate his U.S. citizenship...
...Awareness. Canada felt a new and vibrant awareness of national identity. It showed itself in the eager popular acceptance of recent proposals for a distinctive Canadian citizenship and for a distinctive Canadian flag (TIME, Nov. 5; Nov. 19). It showed itself in the snap and swagger of veteran Canadian regiments marching up their Main Streets, and in the cheers to which they marched. The new spirit could be seen in the words of Prime Minister King a fortnight ago in the House of Commons: "We do expect and will expect that this country shall be given full recognition [in] matters...
...Chiefs of Staff. Civilian control would be strengthened under "one Cabinet member with clear and primary responsibility for the exercise of that control." Said the President: "The American people . . . need have no fear that their democratic liberties will be imperiled so long as they continue fulfilling their duties of citizenship...
Other occupied countries of Europe have turned their backs on this problem. France merely conferred citizenship on illegitimate children of French women and "unknown" fathers. In Washington a diplomat from a country occupied for years by the Nazis took this line: "I heard in my country of only one case. A girl had from a German soldier a baby against her will. As soon as the baby was born, she killed it." Norway, which three decades ago took the lead in abolishing the stigma of illegitimacy, has decided that facts should not only be faced, but lived with...
...grandson, Pianist Walter Morse Rummel, was blacklisted in the American zone in Germany as an ex-Nazi stooge. Born in Berlin to the daughter of the telegraph inventor's second wife, he had lived in the U.S. as a child, returned to Germany at 17, taken German citizenship in 1944. His mother once taught the Bible to President-to-be Teddy Roosevelt...