Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite McCarthy victim these days is Gustavo Duran. Joe flourishes a picture of Duran taken during the Spanish Civil War in what he says is "the uniform of the S.I.M.-the counterpart of the Russian secret police." He then says that Duran's American citizenship was rushed through, that he was "promoted" by the State Department to the U.N. in 1946. "And what do you think he was doing there today? Unbelievable as it is, his task was to screen displaced persons and decide which would make good, loyal Americans...
Name Dropper. In El Paso, after applying for U.S. citizenship, Ng Wah Yee changed his name to Chan...
...When such committees ask questions regarding colleagues . . . . any conscientious witness will find the public hearing to be a personal ordeal which he must suffer in the interests of good citizenship...
Explaining that the Congress has the right to investigate any grievance, condition or situation in the interests of legislating and supervising the government's executive branch, Colegrove wrote that "Good citizenship also means that citizens should assist legislative committees by frank and honest testimony. Indeed they cannot legally do other than that when called to testify under oath...
...Radio and gambling, cocktails and promiscuous fornication, soporifics and aphrodisiacs, television and motor trips and sports, preferably sports that threaten loss of limb, are all the fillers-in of deficient forms of life: witnesses to the disruption of the family, the renunciation of parenthood, the retreat from citizenship, the failure of education to make whole persons...