Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While brawling in the streets he was cut from mouth to ear, and he carries the scar to this day. He joined Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist group, later broke away to create a faction of his own. Whenever he needed credentials of any sort, he claimed British citizenship...
Faced by this evidence that Joyce was not British, the presiding justice threw out the first two counts of the indictment, which were based on a presumption of British citizenship. But there was a third count: that Joyce behaved as a traitor in Germany between Sept. 18, 1939 and July 2, 1940, when his British passport expired. The prosecution argued that during this period, since he enjoyed the protection of a British passport, he owed allegiance to the British Crown, and that he had betrayed that allegiance...
Said the Speech: "Canada . . . should possess a distinctive national flag. You will be asked to appoint a select committee ... to consider a suitable design. . . . The Government also considers that it is advisable to ... clarify the definition of Canadian citizenship...
...raising the morale of U.S. troops-TIME, Aug. 20.) In April she married a Portuguese employe of the Domei News Agency, and hoped that might make her a Portuguese citizen (the latest U.S. laws on the point have not been court tested, but presumably she could not renounce U.S. citizenship without the approval of the U.S.). Her brother Fred, who now helps run the family fruit stand in Chicago, said last week: "All we know is what we read in the papers. We feel we are not in a position to condemn...
...some 12,000 fugitives from Franco settled in Mexico, most of them in and around Mexico City. They found the language and customs congenial, relief for those who needed it efficient and openhanded. The Cardenas Government offered immediate free citizenship for the asking, set up a Casa de España through which scholars and other refugee intellectuals could carry...