Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter M. Beveraggi-Allende, professor of Latin-American economy at Boston University, who got his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard last spring and one month later learned the Peronist legislature had revoked his citizenship...
Supporting the candidacy of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Griswold termed the attack poor citizenship, bad politics, and "poor law." He said he hoped it would not have much political effect...
...FEPC. Eisenhower's stand on compulsory laws is significant coming from a so called "military" man. If he was merely seeking Southern votes, why did he tell his audience at Comumbia, S. C. that no group of Americans can be allowed to remain in a status of second class citizenship...
Finally, the British proposed to give citizenship in the Federation of Malaya to some of the Chinese, e.g., those born in certain Malayan provinces, or those with one Malaya-born parent. By these standards, the British estimated, only about 350,000 Chinese would be eligible for citizenship. The Malays did not like the idea, but after months of negotiations, they finally agreed. When the bill became law, it brought a whopping surprise to Malaya...
...original British estimate had been woefully off. Census officials reported last week that 1,200,000 Chinese-nearly four times as many as was originally estimated -are in fact eligible for citizenship under the conditions laid down by the new law. The Malays were shocked. They had thought that, legally speaking, the Chinese would only get a foot in the door; instead they were smack in the living room, i.e., they will have a major voice in government, escape trade restrictions on foreigners, etc. The British hope that they will also shoulder the duties of citizenship, including service...