Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French citizenship rights were given 500 Gestapo agents to be sent to Vichyfrance...
...enemy aliens in the country, they had the smallest number of internees among the big three (Germany, Japan, Italy). They are working hard on production lines; their sons are fighting in the armed forces. Francis Biddle promised another reward, which will permit about one-third their number to attain citizenship quickly: suspension of the literacy test for all aliens over 50 who have lived in the U.S. continuously since...
...Mother, a tender kiss, for I am very proud of you both. America is not the land of your birth but, in your wisdom and devotion to this country you love, you have become finer, more worthy citizens than a good majority of people who can trace their citizenship back several generations. Although Christianity is not your avowed faith, in your daily lives you prove you are better Christians than many of those fine people who every Sunday attend that beautiful church on the corner several blocks away...
Cinemactor Ramon Novarro, now 37, asked Mexico's Congress for permission to enlist in the U.S. Army. Novarro, who never became a U.S. citizen, would automatically lose his Mexican citizenship if he enlisted without permission...
From his analysis of the inexpertness of the expert, the author turns to a discussion of the problem of propaganda in a democracy, showing clearly the distinction between education for citizenship and teaching the citizen to choose between the conflicting counsels to which he is exposed. For Professor Friedrich, the solution to the conflict between democracy and bureaucracy would seem to lie in a democratic process of decision and a self-imposed routine of carrying out decisions. "What is required," he writes, "is a willingness and ability to take orders and instructions and to carry them out faithfully, even when...