Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning the difficulties encountered by Wladyslaw Plywacki in becoming an American citizen [TIME, May 4], we can all condone the action of Judge J. Francis McLaughlin in insisting on Plywacki's taking the oath of citizenship before God. Truly this country had been founded by men of God, through God and for God's people . . . (REV.) FR. DANIEL D. DRISCOLL...
...gave up his U.S. citizenship in '1948, was escorted to a London hospital for a psychiatric examination after trying to get into Buckingham Palace to see the Queen. He wanted the Queen's permission to stay in England ("I'm asking for the fundamental right to work"). Released and told to get out of the country (his visitor's permit had expired), he went back to the palace and holed up for the night between cardboard sheets underneath a coronation grandstand. A bobby roused him at 2 a.m. and took him to jail. Brought to court...
...House proper, and the parietal rules should be equalized too. Proctors ought to be replaced by resident tutors, for House residents should enjoy no privileges deprived of their Claverly counterparts. Claverly men are first-class Harvard students, and it is unfair to hobble them with second-class citizenship...
Wladyslaw Plywacki, 24, had passed all his tests for U.S. citizenship with flying colors. Imprisoned for five years by the Nazis in his native Poland before he es caped to the U.S., he had served a hitch in Japan for his adopted country. He was an Air Force corporal stationed at Hickam Field, Honolulu when he came up before Federal Judge J. Frank McLaughlin to take the official oath and become an American...
...merely substituted an affirmation of allegiance permitted for those who object to oath-taking, suggested that, since Plywacki was about to leave for the States, the whole matter could be settled on the mainland. But Judge McLaughlin, a Roman Catholic, had his principles, too. He ruled Plywacki ineligible for citizenship...