Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skill to pass himself off as a native. In 1943, by his own account, he directed the assassination of German Gauleiter Wilhelm Kube in Minsk. After a hasty cram course in German, he was planted in a camp for German P.W.s. In 1947, he was granted Rumanian citizenship under the name Stanislaw Lewandowski. But for all his success and all his skill, Khokhlov was far from happy as an undercover agent. "I got into Soviet intelligence when my country was at war," he explained last week. "At that time, I considered it my patriotic duty . . . but the war ended...
Mobster Albert Anastasia, 51, onetime lord high executioner of Murder, Inc., was stripped of his U.S. citizenship (and was thus set up for deportation to Italy) by a Newark federal judge on a relatively petty count. The court's finding: in applying for legal U.S. residence and citizenship, Anastasia twice neglected to report four arrests (three for murder, one for felonious assault), plus a 1923 conviction for gun-toting...
...Strip citizenship from persons convicted of conspiring to overthrow the Government...
Keystone of the Eisenhower program is a bill, now in committee stage, which would take away the citizenship of any person found guilty of advocating the overthrow of the Government by force. In introducing the bill, Michigan's Senator Ferguson said it would mean the end of the Communist party; actually, it would have little effect at all. For the Smith Act, used during the Truman administration, provides punishment for anyone conspiring to advocate the Government's overthrow. In addition, such a conspiracy is a felony, and persons convicted of a felony are now deprived of virtually all the rights...
...Beloyannis the Moschous and 3,000 other Greek hostages worked at slave labor and studied under the constant supervision of Greek Communist secret police. The children were sent to "vocational school" to learn the principles of "good citizenship." "They had only one objective: to change our opinions and beliefs," said Christopher Moschou. "First, they would be sweet. Then they would become hard and they would threaten. They told us that jail and torture awaited us when we got back to Greece." It was their fellow Greeks who did most of the threatening. "The Hungarians," said another captive, "left us pretty...