Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost three years of study and hearings by the judiciary committees, it is designed to bring thousands of piecemeal immigration statutes and regulations (accumulated since 1798) into one handy, compact code. In the process, it would remove some glaring inequities, e.g., all Asiatic immigrants would be eligible for citizenship, where previously Japanese and certain others were barred. But the McCarran bill accepts the principle of national origin without any reservation...
...whose quotas are exhausted. ¶ Updating of population base, from 1920 to 1950, for determining quotas. ¶ Provisions to allow Orientals who are naturalized citizens of Western nations (e.g., Hong Kong Chinese) to immigrate under the quotas of their Western nationalities; the McCarran bill puts all Orientals, regardless of citizenship, in the small quotas assigned to their ancestral countries. ¶ Revamping of deportation rules and procedures; under the McCarran bill, it is at least theoretically possible for a naturalized citizen to be deported for a traffic violation...
...water) and la crapaudine (24 hours in the sun with arms and legs tied together behind the back*) are no longer in official use, but discipline is still stern and often meted to a whole company for one man's offense. The favors France grants in return are citizenship (after five years' service), a tactful silence about the past, and the chance of death...
...Malay Peninsula, which is about the size of Florida, Malays and Chinese are now about equal in numbers (2,500,000 each). But only in Singapore, which is a British Crown Colony, do native-born Chinese have full British citizenship. In the peninsula's eleven other political units (nine of them still ruled by local nabobs under British "protection"), Chinese citizenship is strictly limited. Hoping to lessen this discrimination, the British in 1946 set out to organize the country into a Malayan Union. But the old Malay hierarchies, fearing that the Chinese might outvote them, threatened to revolt...
Last week the Federal Legislative Council approved a bill offering federal citizenship to 200,000 Chinese residents. This is less than one-tenth of the Chinese population, but it is the first hopeful step towards a wider participation by the Chinese in democratic government in Malaya...