Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underworld that lies behind the lovely façade of Paris, a new population has moved in on the oldtime apache. In the argot they are les Bicots, but respectable Parisians call them les Algériens. After 1946, when the people of Algeria were granted full French citizenship, they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas...
Ulbricht took up Soviet citizenship, helped organize German P.W.s and captured officers (among them, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus) into the pro-Communist shock corps that was supposed to go home and paint Germany Red after V-day. The propaganda barrage laid down on the encircled Wehrmacht armies at Stalingrad was written by Ulbricht and delivered in his guttural German over front-line loudspeakers. In Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Red princelings from all over Europe, e.g., Tito, Togliatti, Thorez, he shared quarters in the Lux Hotel with a plain, buxom German émigree named Lotte...
...First. It is not only a legal requirement but also a principle of wisdom and good citizenship for an individual called before a court, grand jury, or a legislative investigating committee to answer questions frankly and honestly. The constitutional privilege to keep silent is an exception to the legal obligation to testify; but even when the legal privilege is available, there are times when it is best not exercised...
...City of New York shall be held accountable for any consequences." Lyons also challenged Winchell to a duel by intelligence test-"low I.Q. pays all." Then Lyons applied a needle to Winchell's most painfully vulnerable point. Said he triumphantly: "The true measure [of Winchell's good citizenship] is Winchell's admission . . . that he never, but never, has voted...
...take the privilege to offer two minor [criticisms]? The estimate of Booker Washington is only partly correct. In the beginning of his work he labored in such a limited field that he had to accept, for the time being, second-class citizenship. But that time passed, and there is no longer any reason for the Negro to continue in the Washington pattern. The other matter is the failure of your investigators to discover the "Deep South." I could lead you there where you would not recognize it as what we like to call democratic America. But these are very small...