Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first book in world government's Bible is Union Now, by Clarence K. Streit. Writing in 1938, Streit proposed a federal union of the democracies of the North Atlantic. He urged a common citizenship, defense force, money, postal and communications system, and a custom-free economy. By 1940, Streit's book had gone through 17 editions, for with World War II fast approaching, people were seeking a slogan, a goal--in short, a blueprint for a new post-war world...
...cousins (Richard Davalos)-a blond youth who likes to sing and cook-fall in love. Eddie's intense, unrealized sexual feeling for the niece drives him to jealous rancors. He taunts the girl that the boy seeks marriage only as a way of gaining citizenship; he tries to make the neighborhood think the boy is a homosexual. Still thwarted, he blabs about the cousins' illegal entry to the immigration officers, and in a final rage draws a knife in a fight that results in his own death...
...that she feared becoming involved in a criminal prosecution; rather, she insisted that her "own beliefs" prohibited her from naming her friends. Did she have a right to use the Fifth Amendment in such a way? And having used it, should she in any case be granted the U.S. citizenship for which she has applied? A great many people would answer no to both questions; others would...
...very different and are leading us in entirely opposite directions," said 72-year-old Lord Malvern, the former Sir Godfrey Huggins, who heads the Federation. Malvern inherited and believes in Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes's dictum: "Equal rights for all civilized men," which implies suffrage and full citizenship for qualified, educated blacks. "We do not think [apartheid] is suitable for us," said Malvern. "The Union of South Africa believes that it is divinely inspired by God to lead its people into a Republican promised land where white supremacy will be permanent . . . This [Federation's] government is inspired...
...Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they advised. "Bad weather is coming." When Mann did not understand, they added: "The housecleaning will be too much for you." The housecleaning was done by the Nazis: the burning of his books, the revocation of his citizenship...