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...question of giving amnesty to draft evaders is concerned, I do not wish to share the privileges of American citizenship with men who do not fulfill their duties as citizens. In my opinion, these selfish men, who interpret morals for their own benefit, are nothing less than traitors...
...time when the Turks were enforcing their rule by slaughtering the Armenian minority. He was spirited out of the country in a Gladstone suitcase and taken to England, where he attended Harrow and Cambridge. Though for many years he claimed Iranian nationality and in 1965 regained his Turkish citizenship, he spent most of his life in England...
...just weeks before the war ended, Lincoln, with the approval of Congress, granted amnesty to all Union deserters, with the stipulation that they must return to their units within 60 days and serve out their enlistment periods. Those who chose not to take advantage of this offer lost their citizenship...
...Sinatra (whose father was born in Catania)? A bust seemed to be the answer, until somebody remembered a national law that forbids statues of liv-ing persons. Catania will probably say it with flowers instead-by dedicating a Sinatra floral zone in the public gardens and giving Frank honorary citizenship-and with a festa and TV cameras and maybe even with Frank...
Rather than keep her in prison as a continued embarrassment to the regime, some Athenians suspected the government might find it more expedient simply to deport her. Lady Fleming, who has dual Greek and British citizenship, told newsmen after she was sentenced that "I am Greek and I will stay." But there were reports that the regime might pack her on a London-bound aircraft after she has spent a while in prison and the case has faded from the headlines, then issue a decree depriving her of her Greek citizenship...