Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Libyans for world citizenship. A fair man with a toothbrush mustache and an American accent was saying: "I think I was born in Holland-I think so, mind you." Another young man, very dark and ill-shaven, introduced himself to me crisply: "I am the French press attache of this movement. I was appointed only yesterday, so there is little I can tell you about Garry Davis. However, I can tell you a lot about the Trotskyists, with whom I used to have numerous affiliations...
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 . . . Not thousands, but millions ... of applications will be made . . . and in 1950 an assembly of the peoples of the world will be elected...
Died. Sir C. (for Charles) Aubrey Smith, 85, hawk-nosed, patrician stage & screen character actor (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Four Feathers, Lloyds of London); in Beverly Hills, Calif. A onetime champion cricketer, Smith never gave up his British citizenship in more than 20 years in the U.S., was knighted...
Presiding Justice Stone tossed in a free lecture with the levy, telling the Armistice Day miscreants, "It is good citizenship to obey a police officer anywhere in Massachusetts, Cambridge, or Harvard...
...Malan government has already begun work on restricting immigration and tightening requirements for citizenship. Explained Dönges: "[This] aims at the protection of the State against a world outlook and an outlook on life foreign to that generally current in South Africa...