Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patriotic, Avoid Friction." To some, the final insult to Negro pride is the appearance of the European refugee, who is free to vote, eat where he wishes, and attain full citizenship, while the native-born Negro, often of old U.S. stock, must remain a semi outcast...
...Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Louis Des-touches) prewar Fascist and one of France's most brilliant novelists, (Journey to the End of the Night), wrote virulent, anti-Semitic articles for the Nazis. He was turned down when he applied for German citizenship, but Parisians guess he is now in Germany...
...York Age, a conservative Harlem newspaper which in 60 years of Republicanism has only once supported a Democrat for President (Roosevelt in 1932), declared for Roosevelt. Said the Age: "Negroes have made too much progress in their fight for first-class citizenship under President Roosevelt to trust the future to Thomas E. Dewey...
Raissa Irene Berkman Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S.-born Communist Earl Browder, finally became a legitimate alien immigrant eligible for U.S. citizenship, thus ending a four-year tug of technicalities over her illegal entry from Canada in 1933. The benevolent cooperation of immigration and consular officials ended her long dispute over her deportation (never enforced) by allowing her to re-enter the U.S. from Canada with a legally stamped visa...
William Christian Bullitt, debonair, billiard-bald, onetime U.S. Ambassador to France, joined the French Army in Algiers, after completing an assignment by LIFE to write articles on France and Italy. Bullitt said he would keep his U.S. citizenship, got from the French the rank of commandant (U.S.: major...