Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balding, bespectacled Oscar Lange, soon to be Poland's new Ambassador to the U.S., arrived in Washington-without fanfare, without credentials, and (in U.S. eyes) without Polish citizenship. He had flown in not from Warsaw, but from Chicago...
...reward of his labors almost at hand last week, Envoy Lange left Washington, secluded himself in a friend's home in Virginia, waited for protocol to catch up with him. He had one other thing to do: renounce his U.S. citizenship...
...theme song of the conference was: "Scandinavians, get together." Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship. Laski too was stirred. Hailing the advance of socialism in Britain, France, Belgium and Scandinavia, he cried: -"All of us stand side by side...
...public health, the school gymnasium, and the medical profession. They speak of education and in particular of vocational education. That too is the job of our public and private institutions. It is not the realm of the military. They speak of rearing the national youth to its responsibility of citizenship. Everyone knows that the Army is a buck-passing institution from the highest general to the lowest pfc. But few realize that buck-passing is the refusal to accept responsibility. Citizenship is not to be learned in an institution where responsibility is something to pass on to another and initiative...
Thus they avoided idleness, but by last week they could no longer escape nervousness. A hundred questions plagued them: would they be sent back, and where? What would be the citizenship of the 13 children born at the Fort? What was the chance of getting to Canada, then back into the U.S. with a visa? What of the ones with sons in the American Army...