Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who were enjoying themselves at a Sunday-school picnic. Rather, it was from hearts which knew the meaning of longtime humiliation, ostracism, and rape. Even Adolf Hitler himself must take a bow to American methods of keeping citizens from getting the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship...
Three weeks after the House of Commons had debated newly defined Canadian citizenship, members had a go at another nationalistic proposal: that a committee should be appointed to choose a distinctive national flag for Canada. For six hours the chamber rocked with the roll and peal of patriotic oratory...
...graduation in 1935 he was astonished to find himself awarded a scholarship "as the best all-round man" in the class. He stayed on for an M.A., took his Ph.D. at London University. Then he got a teaching job at the University of Wisconsin, took out U.S. citizenship papers, and with a young English wife settled down in a remodeled barn for what he thought was a lifetime of philosophy and writing...
...board also found that Rutgers-educated Colonel Wyman had lied to his superiors about his knowledge of Friend Rohl's German citizenship, which made Rohl ineligible to handle secret Army contracts. Patterson did not disagree...
...intemperately ranted: "Away with those human rats. God forbid that our nation should ever again allow one of them to set foot on Canada's soil." One Government official angrily cried that he would prefer, personally, "to throw out every god damned one of them," regardless of citizenship. No Government, of course, would ever allow such a thing to happen...