Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's Senate approval of a proposal to enlist 25,000 selected D.P.s in the U.S. Army called for no Legion, but for enlistment in regular Army organizations. It did provide for citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity...
...Jose, Calif., British-born Lilian Augusta Fontaine, mother of Actresses Olivia de Havilland (who became a citizen in 1941) and Joan Fontaine (who became a citizen in 1943), was awarded citizenship after 29 years...
...Ghadiali dazzled a federal court into believing he was a Parsee-Zoroastrian, thus a Caucasian and therefore eligible for citizenship under the law then in effect...
...Make it unlawful to work or conspire toward the establishment in the U.S. of a foreign-controlled, totalitarian government, i.e., the Soviet. (Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and ten years in jail; loss of citizenship...
Full Circle. Last week Fred Erwin Beal had come full circle. He returned to Gastonia to be restored to the U.S. citizenship he had lost. In the summer-hot courtroom he stood, a heavy-waisted man of 52, and told Judge Wilson Warlick earnestly: "I am one of the greatest foes of Communism in America. I would rather be an American prisoner than a free man in Russia...