Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick and lusty to respond to the voters' concern, blamed each other for what was going on in Algeria. None attacked the French record as bluntly as ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France. In 1947 France gave Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems a sort of second-class citizenship by allowing them to elect the local legislature's Second College, which, in turn, sent 15 delegates to the French National Assembly. The Europeans in Algeria, who number only 1,200,000, also got 15 seats...
...French maintain that "Algeria is France" and, on paper, admit Algerians to full citizenship (with voting rights for 15 Deputies in the French National Assembly). Yet Algerians are no longer beguiled by the notion that they are Frenchmen. "We are only French when they want us to fight or die for them," said a bitter young Constantine Arab. "When we need a job, we're not French; when we fight for our freedom, we're not French but bloodthirsty fanatics. Once we loved the French like brothers, and many of us hated to turn against them...
...Good Citizenship. "On the whole," said N.P.A. "the story is a good one." Creole plays the good citizen of Venezuela principally by paying its taxes; it pioneered, between 1943 and 1948, the historic agreement with the government by which the company pays half its profits to Venezuela, the owner of the underground crude. But according to N.P.A., Creole also: ¶ Pays top wages. Common laborers earn $6 a day, foremen $13, plus so many fringe benefits, e.g., Sunday pay, year-end bonuses, housing, schooling, hospital care and cheap commissary supplies, that real wages are nearly triple normal wages. ¶ "Lives...
...bouquet. The Negro has neither the financial resources nor the access to power necessary to help himself effectively. More important, the NAACP feels that only through community action will the Negro's status be improved. The economic and social system has forced the colored man into second class citizenship, and the world now owes him the opportunity to make a living...
...speech before the round-table discussions began, President James R. Killian Jr. of M.I.T. reported that he had received scores of letters urging the "strengthening [of] the teaching of science . . . more emphasis on high intellectual standards, more attention to the teaching of human relations, to remedial reading, character improvement, citizenship, spiritual education, hand-mindedness, our American heritage, teacher competence, foreign relations, foreign languages, money management, Asia, self-knowledge and sundry other fields." Nevertheless, said he, the conference would have to cope. "People who disagree on the fundamental principles cannot easily agree on school budgets, or on much of anything else...