Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return to the three-island nation of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla spelled out for them by Great Britain on the eve of decolonization. The ad--signed by Ronald Webster, chairman of the Anguilla Island Council, but largely written by Howard Gossage, a San Francisco ad man--promised honorary Anguillian citizenship to Americans who contributed $100 to the fledgling state, and told prospective contributors to send money to "The Anguilla Trust Fund, Chase Manhattan Bank, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands...
...fascinated him, the same year, 1948. He then hoped to enter a newly-established school for French career civil servants. But his Austrian birth--in Vienna in 1928--made him temporarily ineligible. School regulations required that applicants be naturalized French citizens for five years, and Hoffmann, who received his citizenship in 1947 although he had lived in France since 1929, couldn't quality until...
...making listeners "better farmers, better cattlemen and better Peruvians." Operated as a nonprofit venture, ERPA is sending educational broadcasts to people who live as far as 15,000 ft. up in the Andes, offering organized study of such subjects as farming, health and home management, economics, religion, citizenship, sports and cooking...
...casual patriots most of the time. Whatever national loyalty a man feels is indirect, the product of satisfaction with his job, family, friends, union, church, country. If asked what other country he might prefer, he draws a blank. Rarely have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship or denigrate their country while abroad. Saul Alinsky, the professional agitator, says with some surprised self-analysis: "Get me outside the country and suddenly I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S." Such pride goes far beyond material advantages. In a 1963 survey...
...that he had refused to meet his Spanish Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgel, except at an out-of-the-way church. The bishop remained in Spain. De Gaulle also upset the Andorran elders, who zealously guard their privileges, by urging them to relax the strict rules that deny citizenship to two-thirds of Andorra's 15,000 residents. And he winced visibly when the Andorrans broke into a game but off-key rendering of La Marseillaise...