Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow's foreign press corps thought Cecilia Nelson Kohonen a fairly harmless person. A small (5 ft. 2 in.), pleasant-faced blonde of 33, she was a native of Michigan who had renounced her U.S. citizenship. She had done secretarial work for Visiting Reporters Edgar Snow and Maurice Hindus, and for the U.S. Embassy. For two years she worked part-time for Robert Magidoff, 42, correspondent for McGraw-Hill, Britain's Exchange Telegraph news agency...
What he had written was in keeping with the general's style and past performance: "In this hour of momentous import, national and international, temporal and spiritual ... I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from accepting any public duty to which I might be called by the American people...
...long-term policy should be to create a democratic federation of Europe, with a constitution based on the principles of common citizenship, political freedom, and representative government; including a charter of human rights. Such a federation should have defined powers with respect to such matters as external affairs, defense, currency, customs; and the planning of production, trade, power and transport. To achieve this objective, the governments of the states of Western Europe should take steps to convene, as soon as practicable, a constituent assembly composed of representatives chosen by the parliaments of the participating states, to frame a constitution...
Geography is important. Our recent World War demonstrated that to this generation. Geography as a science of the world's spatial relationships and patterns of human development is essential to the "Education for Citizenship" that many modern educators expound as the true aim of the Liberal Arts College...
...Rumanian cabinet took away ex-King Carol's Rumanian citizenship and such worldly goods as he left behind when he abdicated in 1940. Plain Mr. Hohenzollern, they decided, had "slandered" the state. His son, plain Mr. Michael Hohenzollern is allowed to keep his citizenship and part of his fortune...