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...duty that bound me to the Cuban revolution. I bid farewell to you to our comrades, to your people who are now mine. I make formal renunciation of my duties in the leadership of the party, of my post as minister, of my rank as major, of my Cuban citizenship. Other lands of the world claim the aid of my modest efforts, and the time has come for us to separate...
...insecurity of constant acquisitiveness and precarious status; as the dislike by the remnants of the old Republican coalition (rural, midwest) for the New Deal generation and the Roosevelt coalition (urban, east); and as the hatred of the hyphenated Americans (the Italian-and German-Americans) for the second-class citizenship imposed upon them by World War II (by attaching Communism, the thesis holds, these immigrant groups not only gained revenge against a hated enemy of their home country but acquired needed prestige in America...
Congress in 1924 capped the conquest of the American Indian by granting U.S. citizenship to all Indians born from that year on. Until then, tribal Indians had been considered "wards of the Government." But the gesture by no means fully extended the U.S. Constitution to about 70% of the country's Indians-the 380,000 tribal members who now live on 399 reservations and enclaves maintained by the Federal Government...
...Mississippians overwhelmingly approved a new voting law that eliminates virtually the whole artful apparatus of legalisms that has successfully disfranchised the Negroes in their state for nearly a century−including the requirements that a voter be of "good moral character" and be able to define good citizenship. Though Mississippians must still pay a $2 state poll tax and show minimal literacy to qualify for the voting rolls, the first of these barriers is under challenge in federal courts, and the second has been circumvented by the 1965 Voting Rights Act, under which federal registrars can enroll anyone without regard...
...Kingdom's 124 police forces to send warrants directly to Dublin, where the commissioner of the Garda Siochana will simply order the wanted man picked up and packed off. In effect, the law restores the pre-1964 system, but with the vital difference that a fugitive claiming Irish citizenship gets a 15-day breathing spell to petition for habeas corpus in an Irish court. A pending British law will send Irish warrants to local British magistrates for endorsement, provide the same 15-day grace period and right of habeas corpus. Both laws will also deny extradition for debtors, political...