Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European elections and a European parliament are not an impossible eventuality." Under those conditions, thinks Grimond, the Liberals could conceivably "become part of a widely based progressive or radical party" supporting such Liberal ideas as changes in the educational and social system, and limited redistribution of property ownership. With citizenship in a United Europe, concluded Grimond, "our friendship with the Americans should not be based on any exclusive interests, but on the coordination of European and American interests...
Brother Daniel will become a Christian citizen of Israel, with equal rights under the law. The basis of the decision of the High Court of Israel denying him the right to claim citizenship as a Jew is the common-sense observation that a Christian is not a Jew any more than a Jew is a Christian. The word Jew has a specific spiritual and cultural connotation historically distinct from the word Christian, though no one would seek to deny that the two great faiths have profound convictions in common...
Crackpots & Liars. Young has been less of a tiger in proposing legislation, though he did introduce a resolution to grant Winston Churchill honorary American citizenship. A great believer in the man looking the role, Young opposed Kennedy at the 1960 convention. His reason: he had seen Kennedy stripped down in the Senate gymnasium-and thought the young Senator was too skinny for the presidency...
...late 18th century, after developing the world's first cotton-spinning machinery, Britain took strong steps to protect its technological lead. Textile workers were forbidden to leave England, and those who did forfeited their property and citizenship. From such harsh precedent has developed over the years a formidable file of U.S. court decisions covering the protection of trade secrets. Last week, in two separate lawsuits, U.S. corporations were again testing the subject...
...Roman Catholic cannot be a Jew, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled last week. Before the, court was the case of Father Daniel, a Polish-born Jew who was converted to Catholicism and became a Carmelite friar (TIME, Dec. 7). He had claimed Israeli citizenship under provisions of the country's Law of Return, which declares: "Every Jew shall be entitled to come to Israel as an immigrant." Speaking for the court, Judge Moshe Silberg expressed deep sympathy for Father Daniel's desire to "identify himself with the people he loves," and suggested that the priest might still...