Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please, please, Mr. Warner, don't lecture us so sternly on the principles of freedom and good citizenship. Do you take us all for fifth columnists...
...detail in the U. S. but not diplomatically accredited must register (but of course cannot be drafted). Informal but angry protests failed to shake the legal fact that all aliens between 21 and 36, unless specifically exempted, must register (but can be drafted only if they have applied for citizenship). Though the fact was not heralded, the U. S. will thus get a complete census of all aliens of military...
Director of the Mission is grave, slow-smiling Dr. Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council of Churches. At Kansas City he laid down its blueprint: "The National Christian Mission . . . seeks to restore the inner resources of the nation through repentance, faith, devotion and responsible citizenship. ... The Mission is united in seeking a new world order of justice and peace. The Mission is united also in its belief that the democratic way of life, to which it is devoted, requires spiritual foundations...
This sentence, taken from the outset of the book (p. 22), is not presented there as my own view, nor as a true view. The sentences which follow it are these: "Such is the spirit of world citizenship at this moment. The analogies to which this spirit appeals are, however, not wholly encouraging. Religion is in a different case from science, etc.," and the rest of the chapter is devoted to showing why this spirit is mistaken. It is the whole point of the book to show "the dilemma of religion"-that we cannot get to a world faith...
Born of Polish stock although his birthplace was Moscow, Leduicki attended the University of Moscow and then assumed Polish citizenship in 1918. He served in the Polish army during the campaigns of 1918-19 and 1921 against the Soviets, and was decorated for bravery upon the personal recommendation of General Sikorski, now Polish Prime Minister...