Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were born in the U.S. and, until Pearl Harbor, had therefore enjoyed all the blessings of citizenship. They had gone to the public schools, voted, earned a living. Some of them had friends or relatives in the U.S. armed forces. But last week these 6,000-odd U.S. Japanese were busy renouncing their citizenship to swear allegiance to Emperor Hirohito...
...nonpolitical Communist Political Association, contributed a $5,000 check to the nonpolitical Freedom House campaign fund for the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Building (TIME, Feb. 26), explained that it was "a public recognition of a debt" for Willkie's "defense ... of the right of American Communists to full citizenship. . . ." Freedom House's directors promptly returned the Browder check because of its "political implication," explained: "We advocate full collaboration with the Soviet Union ... in the prosecution of the war . . . [but] Wendell Willkie was outspoken in his criticism of American Communists...
Other topics will include reconstruction of schools for democracy; supervisory practices; teaching of modern languages; war veteran problems; audio-visual education; educational administration; progressive education in elementary grades; citizenship training; and inter-group education...
...training, in an open letter to President Roosevelt made public this week. Headed by President Conant, Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, and Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, the group contended that "military training offers no real solution to national problems of education, health, or responsible citizenship in a free society...
...finds security, of an uneasy sort, in a seedy-bourgeois Jewish pension. But he soon learns that in Hitler's Berlin it is as much as your life is worth to ask for somebody's address, and that if you are a Jew, your British citizenship is worth only a laugh. When he takes his little problem to the police, he is arrested under suspicion of involvement in the assassination of a Nazi official...