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"As commander-in-chief of the British Home Guard is sure makes me happy to tell you that your long-service medals are already being manufactured in Japan,”
London press Service
IS IT TOO EASY
TO BECOME
This Oath of Allegiance---
I swear by Almighty God, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty, Quern 'Elizabeth the Second, her Heirs, and Successors, according to law.' has been abused by strangers with British passports. What is the romedy?
by GEORGE SCOTT
London. OES it surprise you to knew that 60 Rus alans, who bought a fourpenny form and filled it up have become British this year?
where Ales have been destroyed by the Gestapo and it is there fore impossible to check on the past of a refugee applying for British citizenship?
appilos- THIEE: How many tions fer naturalisation
have been turned town Eince the
war?
A Home Office, official
BRITISH?
Shirt, Black Shirt, and Brown Britain pays an incalculabla Shirt persecution.
price for keeping her pride m But what sort of security sanctuary. check is it that lets through to citizenship our smuggler
RUB
the Hre *not
What is the alternative? Is Home Ofice to refuse men like alom seientist Bruno the Pontecorvo, Fuchs, Carl Strauss, naturalisation every time and Antonin Raid who pea- police or Customs died information about Czech quite sure" about cmigres in Britain to the Czech have "suspicions" secret police in Prague?
cannot pove?
Well here-is-the-rouline for
a man, or of him they
Or is that mocking the prin ull would-be Britons. First, ciple of British justice by which
this country they must live in
a man is wholly innocent for at least 12 months imme- until he is proved wholly diately before applying for
Guilly? naturalization. They must have
The price of "indisputable spent four of the previous seven years either in Britain, in Bri- safety" is a secret police force. tish territory, or in Crown - The risky virtues of tolerance
and liberty that go with British passport, are worth bet- ter custodians than that. And better safeguards,
vice.
£20 in all
It cost each of them a mitig the same reply to each of a THEN, like these 60 Russians, more than that before becoming questions: "We cannot
one of us, but not enough to that."
any determined
disccurage
would-be Briton,
The Government promise
to become British?"
1
of
answer
No nationality Kingsway.
of
wider, THIS ometar
reluctance
for
am of
they pay their fourpence-for the four-page, white" foolscap Sla- fem, called A.1, at the tionery
London's Office T
The form poscs 11 questions. an independent Inquiry into the
all simple. The applicant signs cure-by-kindness methods
does a statement about his own Broadmoor prompts question: "Are the British. be- not stop us from building character, already printed sides being the most civilized up picture of the process of him, which restis: "I pezple the world has ever becoming British. Before a man good characice and have suffi Eng know, also too soft-hearted for (or woman) is granted British clent knowledge of the their own good?"
citizenship his background is lish language. I am financially scrutinised by Special Branch szivent."
Four Britons must sponsor In particular: "Is it too easy men of Scotland Yard or pro-
by him. vincial police forces, and M.I.5.
Next, the foreigner ddver- for his application But how can anyone check tises Look at the figures. In
in two local wit- rst quarter of the year more on the past of a man who, be- naturalisation
wire than 800 cliema
granted fre naturalisation, was of no papers, pays the fee for
his nessing nationality" certificates of naturalisation.
That term may well hide the sends off he form, with £2, to Since the end of the war in horrors of wor which turned the Home Office.
The
applicant then walts Europe more than 68,000 have human beings into despair-dick
Britai has given while the police check his sworn the oath ct allegiance to refugees. the Crown, and have been lost them sanctuary also provide` a
statements. In London this may umong the mass of. Britons:
take up to six months; in the But it could convenient way for unpathetic, provlaces up to three months. Most of them, so far as any undesirable foreigners to cu If these inquiries leave him one knows, have settled down, tein unscrupulous and un- with a clean record he will be among us to lead useful, honest Elvoury pass. lives.
Wrong-un
the
BUT, now and then, a "wrong D infven the blessing of a British passport and all the rights and privileges which we take for granted.
doubt
Their discovery casts upon the usefulness of the four- security penny form and the check it involves,
Example: A Dutch-born dia-
mind broker has had his Bri- ush chizenship laken away from
declaratio?,
12020
In
* naturalised, after paying Some such men have cer- another £18, making £20 tainly been given sanctuary in all, to the Heme Office..
Occasionally and here the our proper oggerness to succour
Red Broadmoor analogy is complete -genuine..........refugees frorn
TOWN OF MEN IS
NAMED DOROTHY
him by the Home Secretary. AT
This min was gaoled for 18
From James Cooper
of
Brilich brought their
pioneers, mainly Toronto.
descent, who
T least 20 bachelors in wives. Since then most of the the village of Dorothy, girls bom there have migrated nionths for smuggling within 10 days of taking the oath of al-Alberta, cannot find wives, to the cities
cattle though they
own
bachelors Says Tóm, the giance to Britain,
"It sure When he appeared before the ranches worth a total of unofficial spokterman:
world here. Only Deprivation of Citizenship Com-82,000,000
than is a man's (more
us wish it sometimes most of mitter, he was described £700,000) ranging in value was a little less so. Most of us "one of the big shots of the smuggling, trado," A Customs from £20,000 to £60,000 own new cars, trucks and trac- investigator said this man had each. beva under constant suspicion. since the end of May 1948 -
British.
Three questions of 30 and 40 who have charg
tors. Any of us would be glad to build a new modern house Despite a name, Dorothy is with all the latest gadgets if Two years before he became a mon's town. Its population of only we had, wives to give us But in looking 50 scattered over more than 15, the incentive, miles square, Includes tho 20 efter ranches up to 100,000 eligible men between the ages heres each we don't have much
+ not time for wife-seeking, found anyone to.
the.
"Our only chance was the £9,000 a year most of them
and village schoolteacher, Each one ASKED the Home OfficeBross from their entile would last about, a term before
grains which has the final day vi, ph
she married a rancher," he all "I want to be British" op- Tom Hodgson, aged 20 and, sighed. "But chances aren't za pucations these three ques-husky from tending a 2,000-nere good, right now. We've had a for the ranch, says that most of the married: schoolmazın
Eilens: PANce of smen would like to marry want past few term).” (0)
“ONE; Is: IF: the. the Home Office, to give the to have children to inherit their.. Torn and his fellow bachelors benent of the doubt to an ape estates in what is known as "have to admit that it is n' lone plant or naturalisation Dinomtr Valley. The distries ly life, though the claim that unproved suspletons near Red Deer, Alberta, is 10 the healthiest part of of Scotland Yard and the Cus named because it is the hunting Canada, The only social life in toms authorjuicet elegan
ground of archaeologists seeking a danco twice or thrice a year TWO; Is it the practice et rosalia of prehistorie monsters when the men line up for turns the Home Office to give the The district was awitial before, with the few married wonten benefit of the doubt in cases the First World War by in the community pa
London Express Service).
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Typical watch of the 166ữa, this English calendar watch told- the ure, the date, the months, and the phase of the moon- but its accuracy was a matter of change (Reproduced by kind permission of the Worshipful Company of Clock makers. The original forms part of the collection housed in the Goikhali Museum, London)
Three hundred
for years
an idea to flower
THE year it was made was a year of change
and flux. The death of Cromwell two years before, in 1653, had robbed the seventeenth century of its greatest and most controversial figure, and in the Spring the second Charles returned to the throne amid scenes of wild rejoicing. A mãn who was to inspire a great nation was quietly studying; and in October, William Pena was entered as a gentleman coinmaner at Christ Church, Thai was the pattern of the year 1660---- when this calendar watch was made,
A cumbersome, heavy instrument, inaccu・・ cate and unwieldy---but it was the best they had, and its owner undoubtedly thought a lot
Pafictly waterprooť, indišiškty, self-winding, “snes- Sally and cloutly chowing the day the Röles Datakant takes ite giaco as the most moders of the modara, most accsony of the scopesta.
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of it. For it did so many things. If told the fime and the date, the months and the plane of the moon ---a cutter for pride indeed.. -
In time, nearly, thres hundred yours is between it and the Rolex Datejata; thous hundred years for that calendar watch to. reach perfection. Most modena of - the modam, the Datejust combines, in its Heartó- fully hand-finished case, the result of Efty years" work and research by Roles. Perfectly watermofed by the Oyster case, Infantily self-winding (sit hours" dzily west, and the Rolex Perpetual Rotor sers to it that the watch goes for ever), the Datejust adds to These famous Rolex "firsts" the lateleton asi anism which contrives that the date is shown automatically and clearly through a discreet. window on the dial. A frici watch,'Es' fact, is just not made. Its accuracy is the bigbang that evers Roles ein reach.
ROLEX Landmark in the history of time measurement
Every Rolex Dancžnat Hearn thá Ralès Had Sral. ET AU
· that the much no which it li attached bei powest the stringent
- tests of the Barbel Geverissent Tuging Bestitna, and Sau Haan amertat ja pen Odicial Thila Cartilonna, sad the gunoi
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