Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly 20 years between World Wars I and II European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; of a heart attack; in Saint-Pierre-d'Autils, France. Throughout the Occupation he stayed in France, published The Myth of Liberty, an attack on the democracies, and won French citizenship from Vichyite Marshal Henri Pétain. In 1944, after the Normandy landing, he was arrested but subsequently released by Free French forces...
...hours last week, from the opening gavel to the nomination, television's three big networks* carried the story of the convention to 18 million U.S. homes, offices and bars, drawing an estimated 70 million people to the screen for lessons in politics, parliamentary procedure and citizenship. The candidates and their managers found television an invaluable intelligence service; some newsmen decided that they could cover the show best at their ease before a TV screen (see PRESS...
...pusher" who had been selling phony stocks all over Europe, and added that he had become a Canadian citizen by improper means. The swindler sued the paper and won $200. The Mail proved to the court's satisfaction that he was a swindler, but was wrong about his citizenship...
High Noon combines its points about good citizenship with some excellent picturemaking. Carl (Champion) Foreman's screenplay is lean and muscular, and as noteworthy for its silences as for its sounds. And Fred (The Men) Zinnemann's direction wrings the last ounce of suspense from the scenario with a sure sense of timing and sharp, clean cutting. The picture builds from 10:40 a.m. to its high noon climax in a crescendo of ticking clocks, shots of the railroad tracks stretching long and level into the distant hills and of the hushed, deserted streets of Hadleyville. Throughout...
...highest hope is to forge the Malayan Chinese into good Malayan citizens, loyal to the British Commonwealth. His Chinese party will press for full citizenship for Malayan-born Chinese (two-thirds of its members); those born in China will be "weaned so that they transfer their love and affection and loyalty from China to Malaya." "What matters," says Tan, "is the creation of a Sino-Malay spirit," and he thinks this can be done by giving the Chinese squatters a grubstake in the land. "A land title," says Tan, "is the hoop that holds the barrel together...