Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoliation did not end with the three-day pogrom. At the Air Ministry in Berlin last week, Air Minister Goring signed, as Economic Chief of the German Four-Year Plan for Self-Sufficiency. decrees providing: 1) that Jews of German citizenship as a community pay to the State a billion marks indemnity for the assassination of Rath; 2) that the State confiscate whatever is payable to Jews by insurance companies for damage done last week; 3) that Jewish owners of damaged premises must repair them at their own cost; 4) that after Jan. 1, 1939 Jews be excluded from "operation...
...ourselves and to a suffering and disillusioned world that democracy can exist, can grow, and can flourish in this modern age. This is not a responsibility that can be shouldered merely by the adoption of many untried social reforms, but must be solved by hard work, by intelligent citizenship, by widespread public education, by constant vigilance, by rejection of old prejudices and outworn ideas and by a determination on the part of all the people to preserve their individual liberties so that their faith in democracy will be justified...
Poland, in which there is latent antiSemitism, and anti-Jewish Germany last week had a "misunderstanding." It occurred over a Polish passport law, effective midnight October 29, requiring Polish citizens abroad to revalidate their passports or lose their citizenship. Germany, fearful that many of her estimated 55,000 Polish Jews would thus become virtual "citizens" of Germany, seized on the law as a pretext to get rid of them...
Major Albert Brill (U. S. A., ret.) declared himself a candidate for the job of World Dictator, then sailed for Europe to arrange for foreign publication of his four volumes (Individual Ascendency, Collective Ascendency, Ascendent Government, Citizenship) that explain all. Said he: "The world is practically a vast lunatic asylum...
Today, Soprano Lehmann, who acquired three Jewish stepsons by a marriage to a Viennese army officer, is a voluntary exile from her native Germany, and has applied for U. S. citizenship. To her, one of the most impressive things in the U. S. is the U. S. drugstore, where she can buy not only drugs, but milkshakes ''which are very bad for my figure...