Word: citizenship
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...fled to Norway in 1933. When the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940, Brandt put on a Norwegian uniform-at the insistence of friends who were trying to keep him from being grabbed by the Gestapo and shot. He returned to Germany in 1945 as a Norwegian correspondent, with Norwegian citizenship and a Norwegian wife. But the citizenship was not entirely by choice: his German citizenship had been revoked by the Nazis in November...
...Bandaranaike gives top priority to a crusade for a Buddhist revival that has strongly nationalist overtones. This crusade terrifies the 2,000,000 Tamils in Ceylon's 9,600,000 population; they are Hindu by religion and fearful that they will be relegated to second-class citizenship. Ceylon badly needs foreign investment, yet the Prime Minister backs a bill giving the government the right to expropriate all foreign oil property down to filling stations and trucks. She has urged Nehru to accept the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of "stateless" plantation workers originally imported from India, has simultaneously proposed...
...With Mr. Kennedy in the White House, things are bound to be different for American Catholics." So says the Jesuit weekly America, in an editorial saluting John F. Kennedy, by whose election "the full first-class citizenship of U.S. Catholics was at long last ratified." Continues the editorial...
Handlin emphasized that the attitude of the Israeli government is a potential threat to all overseas Jews. Punishment by a Jewish state of crimes against Jews elsewhere might well "constitute an abandonment or qualification of the rights of Jews to full and equal citizenship" in countries other than Israel...
...pistol coup de grâce to each victim. Born in Milwaukee, Marks was arrested 32 times in the U.S., jailed in Wisconsin, Ohio and California (vagrancy, assault, draft dodging, theft, rape), joined Castro's forces in December 1957 and was made a captain. The U.S. canceled his citizenship with alacrity, and eventually even the Cubans could not stomach the man they called "the butcher." Last May, Marks fled Cuba in a boat, made it to Florida and disappeared into Mexico. Last week he was arrested in Manhattan, charged with illegally entering the U.S. on July 22 without...