Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From General Lucius D. Clay, American occupation zone commander, came the mild reprimand: "It is bad citizenship to encourage people to disobey the law of the land." Niemöller's directive seemed to be having little practical effect. Germans were still testifying against Germans. The remaining denazification trials were expected to end next June. But many Germans were delighted with Pastor Niemöller's words, and in the arena of world opinion they still carried, for some listeners, immense authority. Was this authority justified...
...Jersey's Bergen County Common Pleas Court, U.S. citizenship was granted in a hurry to Mrs. Stella Lewandowski, widowed mother of three sons killed in World...
During the spring term the HLU will start a fight against the Barnes and other Massachusetts bills which "seek to deprive Communists of their rights of citizenship." It will also oppose Universal Military Training and Henry Wallace, and support price controls...
...being found to circumvent the intent of the Constitutional guarantees of equality. For many years the Supreme Court, itself, was one of the chief sinners in this respect. It decided on somewhat dubious grounds that the 14th Amendment was meant to protect only those rights that stem from national citizenship, and that most basic civil rights are contingent upon state citizenship. The Court was disposed not to protect civil rights unless they were infringed upon by an official act of a state government--a rare occurrence...
Only by uniting the U.S. and Europe's democracies in a federal union with common citizenship, Roberts thinks, can the U.S. draw the poison from this donor-beggar relationship. Roberts appealed to a higher logic than dollars & cents: "Free men are the best assets we have outside the U.S.; men who think and act like...