Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more so are troops. Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, and the United States are the principal countries represented, but I am told that there is at least one soldier from every country in Latin America. I was surprised to find several Americans among the barbudos, since they risked losing their citizenship by fighting for a foreign country...
When the Nazis marched into Paris, Joanovici sought to avoid the concentration camps by taking out Soviet citizenship papers (the Nazi-Soviet pact was not yet broken). Taunted later for this, Joanovici snapped: "So, is it a crime? There were queues a mile long outside the Russian embassy...
Softened Impact? Board Member Adams and John Marshall Principal Mrs. Florence Hornung charged that much of Allen's series was untrue, but refused to point out any specifics. Reporter Allen, a Briton whose application for U.S. citizenship is pending, stuck to his guns, defended the truth of his series and the propriety of his espionage. The Telegram stood by what it had printed. Said one editor: "We studied every article carefully and toned down all of them. Conditions are much worse than what we said." Superintendent John Theobald complained, but the Telegram planned to let Allen's expos...
...network of friends served him well during World War II, when he worked as a mobilizer for Donald Nelson, persuaded dozens of top businessmen to take Washington jobs, including "Electric Charlie" Wilson, G. Keith Funston and Ralph Cordiner, on his plea that "Government service is the highest form of citizenship." Since then, Weinberg has nudged George Humphrey, Neil McElroy and many others into Government service. He has achieved the status of a de luxe one-man employment agency. "There is a guy waiting outside right now," he told a recent visitor, "who is president of a multimillion-dollar company...
...Norwegian military mission. Surveying divided Berlin, he decided: "It is better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin's mayor. In 1956, after other leaders had failed, Brandt dissuaded an angry mob of 75,000 from marching into the Soviet sector...