Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joan Fontaine (Mrs. Brian Aherne, the former Joan De Havilland) became a U.S. citizen. She gave up the British citizenship which she and Sister Olivia acquired from father Walter De Havilland in their natal Tokyo. (Father, a onetime professor, who divorced their mother and married a Japanese maid, was last heard from in Denver with Wife...
...prisoners of the first grade are released for good conduct and sent back to soldiering, but not with the same units they came from. If pending legislation passes, "graduates" who have been sentenced to the most severe soldier's penalty short of death (dishonorable discharge and loss of citizenship) may have both set aside, start off brand...
With extreme sadness I note TIME'S apparent change in policy in handling copy on patri otic Americans and their counterparts. Under the title "Sloppy Citizenship," TIME, Nov. 16, referred to Hamilton Fish, C. Wayland Brooks, Clare E. Hoffman and some others as "Fuzzy specimens of Homo politicanus." I loved that phrasing. In a story on Dillard Stokes (Jan. 11), TIME referred to Burton K. Wheeler's attack on this brilliant reporter as a "tribute." Subtly done, I thought...
...subsequent decrees of Vichy ("promulgated without the participation of the French people, and directed against them"). He said that Vichy's anti-Jewish laws "no longer exist," promised to hold municipal elections in North Africa. He also revoked the Cremieux Decree of 1870, which granted French citizenship en bloc to Jews in Algeria, but excluded the Arabs. Henceforth, said Giraud, Moslems and Jews must complement each other economically, "the latter working in his shop, the former in the desert, without either having advantage over the other, France assuring both security and tranquillity...
...reply to a Soviet note conferring Russian citizenship on all former inhabitants of East Poland, the Polish Government in Exile last week denounced the Polish Soviet Treaty of July, 1941 as unilateral and intimated that it expects Poland's post-war eastern frontier to be restored as of September, 1939. "Tass," Russia's official news agency, answered by charging Premier Sikorski and his refugee cabinet with the "imperialistic" desire to hold against their will the four million Russians put under Polish rule by a peace treaty of 1921. The Soviet organ also leveled an accusation at the Poles for their...