Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 2,000 Japs who had been evacuated to Alberta from British Columbia after war's start had a unique experience this week. In British Columbia they had never been permitted to vote. But since they had met all voting requirements (citizenship, a year's residence in the Province, etc.), they could vote in Alberta's Provincial election...
...Primer continues: "To the average American, politicians are crooks. . . . The truth is that politicians are no more corrupt than the people who elect them. The people corrupt the politicians. . . . Let's quit blaming the politicians and face the responsibility of full citizenship. . . . Let's become politicians ourselves...
...Duke of Windsor, who has been the quiet banter of some roaring rumors. was reported to be resigning as Governor of the Bahamas and seeking U.S. citizenship. London and Washington semi-omcials expressed grave doubts. Said he: "Fantastic...
...original ties to Britain & Empire had come to him by birth; his paternal ancestors had migrated from Holland more than a century before; he himself had grown up as an old-stock Dutchman among alien but ruling British colonials. Now he declaimed against naked imperialism, shed his British citizenship, trekked north, became a burgher and a leader of the Transvaal Republic...
...Gehrig's parents, 77-year-old German-born Henry and 62-year-old Danish-born Christine, after more than 40 years' residence in the U.S., took the oath of citizenship...