Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important thing now," he says, "is to save the nation, in order to save the individual citizen, and the race." Probably few blacks, however, share his opinion that the civil rights struggle is disruptive of that unity. "It was supposed to be a struggle for first-class citizenship, not for getting Whitey," Jackson maintains. "Those who wanted their rights are being sold another bill of goods now. There are Negroes who believe their mission is to destroy America...
...East Germany-but with two important reservations. In accord with his formula of two German "states" within one "nation," he maintains that the Federal Republic will never regard the German Democratic Republic as a foreign country. He also holds that Germans of both countries will always share a common citizenship. Moreover, before he will consider granting diplomatic recognition to East Germany, Brandt insists that progress be made in normalizing relations between the two states in such areas as travel, communications and cultural contacts...
...grant, within the next 18 months, de jure recognition to the German Democratic Republic in all international affairs. Even so, he insists that in relations between the two German states, Bonn would never consider East Germany a foreign country and that East Germans always would share a common citizenship with West Germans...
...assault on it. They speak in rage and despair. "What we are up against," John Morsell wrote fellow N.A.A.C.P. staffers, "is a concerted attempt by segregationists, black and white, North and South, with the blessing of the President, to turn back the clock and plant second-class citizenship firmly and forever on us." Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, the only black U.S. Senator, concluded sorrowfully: "The whole tenor of things seems to be further dividing the country instead of bringing us together...
...Soviet Union's best-known defector, Svetlana Alliluyeva, confessed that last spring she received some "semiofficial" advice from the U.S.S.R. via a visiting Russian musician. She says she was asked to "keep quiet" and write no more. Further, Stalin's daughter -who intends to apply for U.S. citizenship-was also advised not to marry in America. "I told him that I cannot promise," she replied. Not that she has anyone special in mind-but then "how do I know...