Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice recently TIME has described me as an "expatriate." The word suggests, according to Webster's, exile, a withdrawal from one's native country, or a renunciation of natural citizenship in favor of another. That such an impression might apply to me is very upsetting . . . Despite frequent and largely unnoticed "commuting," I have, admittedly, been obliged by recent circumstances to spend more time abroad than at home. This, however, has not precluded me from completing more than 15 years in the U.S.N.R. (in which I was promoted less than a year ago), or from representing both private...
...have read "The Quality of Citizenship" in the June 27 issue ... I felt no sorrow over the Chinese sailor losing his white wife whose marriage was annulled, but I was astonished to see the verdict of Justice Buchanan of the Virginia Supreme Court: "... the state . . . will preserve the racial integrity . . . not have a mongrel breed . . . prevent the obliteration of racial pride" . . . as against such American national slogans as "equality," "land of freedom," etc. I am proud of my race...
After a private dinner that night with President and, Mme. Tito, Nehru next morning accepted an honorary citizenship of Belgrade and warmly praised the independent stand taken by Yugoslavia, despite "pressure or fear of the consequences." Tito responded by saying that the theory of coexistence is spreading, "and in this regard I think I shall not go wrong if I say that a special tribute is due to our countries...
Though he started teaching at Caltech in 1927, Dr. Zwicky is a citizen of Switzerland, and he refuses to take out U.S. naturalization papers. Naturalized citizens of the U.S., he insists, are second-class citizens, subject to special rules, e.g., their citizenship can be taken away for various reasons, such as staying out of the country for more than two years. "I would apply for American citizenship tomorrow," says Zwicky, "if you did not have two classes of citizens. If I am more free as a Swiss, I stay Swiss...
...citizens . . . so that it shall not have a mongrel breed of citizens. We find there is no requirement that the state shall not legislate to prevent the obliteration of racial pride, but must permit the corruption of blood, even though it weaken or destroy the quality of its citizenship. Both sacred and secular history teach that nations have better advanced in human progress when they cultivated their own . . . peculiar genius." Justice Buchanan concluded: "Regulation of the marriage relation is, we think, distinctly one of the rights guaranteed to the states and safeguarded by that bastion of states' rights, somewhat...