Word: citizenship
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...modifications were all designed to temper Greek objections to any plan that might draw Turkey into governing the island, or lead to an eventual partitioning of the island between Turk and Greek Cypriots. In revising his plan, Macmillan 1) deferred his proposal for dual citizenship for Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots; 2) established separate municipal councils and houses of representatives for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but hoped that in the future some all-in-one legislature would be formed; 3) decided that delegates from Greece and Turkey would be invited to serve as "advisers" to the British Governor instead...
...have been treating Hawaii and Alaska in the same way France has been treating Algeria-forcing upon their citizens the duties of American citizenship without its rights. Thank God that the territories' citizens have been taking their maltreatment in better humor than Algeria's citizens have...
...Greeks and Turks into what would amount to a condominium, Macmillan invited each nation to send a representative to the island to work with the British Governor and the local Cypriot Council. He proposed that Cypriots be allowed to become Greek or Turkish citizens while retaining their British citizenship. If this experiment works, said the Prime Minister, Britain would be prepared to go further and "at the appropriate time . . . share the sovereignty of the island with her Greek and Turkish allies." Complicated as the plan was, it had certainly considered everyone's feelings. But within hours the rejections began...
That's a fine article on the Russian scientists [June 2]-particularly to me, since it refers to my father, A. N. Lodygin [producer of the "Russian sun"-Russia's first electric light]. Although he never completed his citizenship, he was devoted to the U.S. His incandescent lamp foreign patents led the Westinghouse Co. to invite him to Pittsburgh in the '90s. My father always said that he had developed the lamp as an incidental part of his heavier-than-air flying machine, which occupied much of his thought. He died in Brooklyn...
...relief of Olivia Mary Galante," read the bill stuffed in the congressional hopper by Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter. The proposal: let Tokyo-born Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, wife of Paris Journalist Pierre Galante, keep her U.S. citizenship without spending at least 18 months of every five years in the U.S., as must all naturalized Americans. No movie buff, Congressman Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Act, who has kept a flinty eye on the foreign-born, seemed sure of Olivia's loyalty: "She is a lovely person, a very good American. She made...