Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's five-year law, which stripped citizenship rights from those who held office under Mussolini, expired last week. Among the 2,000-odd ex-Fascist officials who may now vote and hold public office: former Marshal Rodolfo Graziani; Prince Junio Valeric Borghese, leader of the neo-Fascist M.S.I, group; and Giuseppe Bottai, onetime member of the Great Fascist Council...
...Manchester Guardian, May's insistence on privacy and the Home Office's determined cooperation with him seemed reasonable enough. In Britain, where a convict's full citizenship rights are automatically restored as soon as he is released from prison, there is a long tradition of forgiving & forgetting no matter how serious the crime. Said a Guardian editorial: "There is a decent British tradition that a man's past is not to be raked up lightly, and that a convict, having purged his offense, is entitled to ... a new start in life." But other papers were indignant...
...them to fulfill, and fit them so far as it can for those common spheres which, as citizens and heirs of a joint culture, they will share with others. . .Democracy is a community of freedom. The quality of alert and aggresive individualism is essential to good citizenship; and the good society consists of individuals who are independent in outlooks and thing for themselves while also willing to subordinate their individual good to the common cause...
...World War II stint as chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Thomas, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, served nine months for taking salary kickbacks from his congressional office staff. Both men have been free since September 1950, but the presidential pardon restores their citizenship rights...
...goes back to the purpose of a museum. "Art," says Taylor, "is the intimate record of the creative vision . . . Nothing can convey the dignity of man so wonderfully as a great work of art; no lesson in citizenship can teach so well the inherent nobility of the human being." He has seen a full day cut from the U.S. work week in his time-from 48 to 40 hours a week. "I think the problem of keeping the adult mind occupied is probably the greatest challenge we face...