Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle age (he is 44) had mellowed Harry. Grinning, he said: "The capitalist system is going to be around for a long time, and we have to shape a labor program to fit the system." Last week, after 25 years, he applied for his final U.S. citizenship papers. But his troubles were not over. And again they lay in the courts. Seeking a divorce, his wife charged that he is the father of a New York dancer's illegitimate child. Harry denied...
...Japanese Exclusion League, about which you carp ... is building public interest for a postwar election, after the 10,000,000 Yanks get back from the Jap battlefronts, to vote on a Constitutional Amendment that would make it impossible for a Jap to have citizenship, no matter where he was born. If the Jap-lovers are against that American plan, let 'em say it with ballots...
Fritz Kuhn, ex-fiihrer of the German-American Bund, interned by the U.S. as an enemy alien since his parole from a two and a half-to-five-year prison sentence (for stealing Bund funds), was ordered deported to Germany. Naturalized in 1934, his citizenship was canceled in 1943 (he took the oath of allegiance "with mental reservations...
Wilhelm Frick, a roistering Munich policeman who had risen to become "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, was a prisoner. It was Frick who, as premier of Thuringia, had conferred German citizenship on Austrian-born Adolf Hitler...
Erich Maria Remarque, 47, popular recorder of World War I's German disillusionment (All Quiet on the Western Front), faced the end of World War II in better spirits. Writing his fifth novel in Manhattan while awaiting his final U.S. citizenship papers, he said: "I am no more German. Even when I dream, it is about America, and when I swear ... it is American...