Word: davises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardheaded observers are tempted to pigeonhole Davis and his disciples as a bunch of displaced sophomores, longhaired faddists and tea-party internationalists. And so, to a considerable extent, they are. But they are more. They are stage managers of a well-meaning but dangerous and irresponsible force.
A.I.R.W.C.P.A. Davis has a small and untidy room-No. 5-on the second floor of the Hótel des Etats-Unis, down a corridor that is redolent with the smell of stale fried potatoes. He works there at a plain wooden table littered with typescript. He is the head...
Transformation. By last week the Davis movement was receiving letters at the rate of 400 a day. From Savoy, in the southeast, a hysterical woman wrote: "I think you must be Christ returned." A Courbevoie worker wrote: "This is our last hope." Recently Garry Davis filled the Salle Pleyel and...
Davis has been received by France's President, Vincent Auriol, who cordially invited him to stay in France, without a passport. In short, he has been transformed from a freak into a world figure.
Last week Garry Davis issued his first policy statement: "I ask everyone everywhere to write me to make known their desire to be registered as world citizens. Within two months the registry will be opened, and to each applicant will be issued a card stating that he possesses world citizenship...