Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life. The idyl was shattered by World War II. Glyndebourne shut up shop; Bing went to work in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square) as a coupon clerk, eventually worked his way up to manager. Technically, he was an enemy alien; he had applied for British citizenship in 1939, but the war had prevented his papers from going through. He was never interned. Moreover, he was able to bring his aging parents from Austria to England...
Then the Senators began wandering through Lee's intriguing past: he had been born Ephraim Zinovi Liberman in Harbin, Manchuria (in 1907), had gone to Moscow briefly in 1930 under a Chinese identity card and the name of Li Hoi-min. Twice he was refused U.S. citizenship because, said the court, he was "not attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution" (presumably because his first wife had divorced him on grounds of physical cruelty). In 1941 he was naturalized at last. The Senators hinted that Lee, in Commerce, had held up aviation gasoline shipments to Nationalist China...
...equal numbers of Malays (2,500,000) and Chinese (2,000,000). The Malays are leisurely, pork-hating Moslems, the country's old settlers. The Chinese are industrious, pork-loving Confucianists, largely recent immigrants who now dominate the economy. After the war, the Malay nationalists insisted on limiting citizenship rights to some 10% of the Chinese. Such discrimination obviously undermined the country's chances of withstanding the Communist terror that broke out in June...
Garry Davis would have to wait a while to become an American again. The young ex-bomber pilot who cast off his citizenship in 1948 to become a "citizen of the world" got a chill welcome home from the Government. Davis, who re-entered the U.S. last April under the French quota as "a stateless person," will be treated like any other alien married to an American, the Justice Department said-meaning that he will have to wait two years before he can get his citizenship...
...Outside is a sign, 'What Hath God Wrought?' It is to remind you what God hath wrought. Friends everywhere have helped. They felt we were building a Christian citizenship here in the hills. A Middlesboro [Ky.] Jew gave a substantial check. Catholics in Middlesboro and Pineville have helped...