Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign spouses [but] neglects to mention the dilemma of Korean wives of American personnel. The Korean national, although his nation is recognized by the U.S., is not eligible to reside in the U.S. as a permanent alien resident, nor dare he hope to achieve American citizenship, because the Korean is an Oriental and is subject to the Oriental Exclusion...
...leave or support themselves, they wrote frantic letters to friends and relatives in the U.S., besieged the U.S. consul for a place on the quota (the best they can hope for is a five years' wait), entered into hundreds of deals for spurious visas and fake Cuban citizenship papers. They moved from one shoddy rooming house to another, ate black beans and rice at corner kiosks and fly-ridden restaurants, endlessly cadged and figured and wangled. As their savings dwindled, many became desperate. Some stowed away on ships; others turned to the smugglers...
...congratulated for the fair and hardheaded judgments you passed on Garry Davis' "world citizenship" movement. As you so well point out, this movement, in its efforts to be objective and above national partisanship, misrepresents the nature of our difference with Russia and, falsely, tars us with the brush of aggressiveness and imperialism with which it is obliged to tar Russia. And it's quite true that whatever may be the pure intentions of its founder and of some of its supporters, such a movement cannot but become the tool of the unnaïve and nonimpractical Communists...
...only big surprise came when Perón reached Article 20, in which he introduced a brand-new concept of nationality. Foreigners who had lived in Argentina for two years, said the proposed new clause, must apply for citizenship...
Cautiously, the three men went to work on the authorities. Last week, Francisco Franco made a historic gesture. His government formally offered full Spanish citizenship (after careful screening) to descendants of those Jews who went to Greece and Egypt after their expulsion in 1492. A week earlier, Franco had granted permission for the opening of Moise Lawenda's temple...