William Penn, 1963 (46. évfolyam, 5-23. szám)

1963-08-21 / 16. szám

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William Penn

August 21, 1963

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CHURCHILL AND CITIZENSHIP

Recently new honors have come to one of the gréatest men of our time, Winston Churchill. The honors, while interesting and more than merited, are relatively unimportant. What Churchill did and what he stood for is what matters. He has made contributions, among a host of other things, to the areas of citizenship and migration.

Churchill offered to France, in the last dark hours before her capitulation to Hitler, common citizenship with Great Britain. Had this offer been accepted, what an effect it would have produced upon history.! Not only the history of the war, but the history of ethnic relations.

One of the stumbling blocks to true world community, even in peaceful times, has always been ethnocentrism, the pride, group egotism, and hostility toward outsiders felt by each ethnic group. An end product is nationalism, and its trappings are borders, guards, passports and quotas.

With the stroke of a pen, or a cabled affirmative, Churchill’s tender could have been translated into the beginings of European political unity — something that will come to pass sooner or later.

Churchill has shown an interest, too, in breaking down some of the barriers of migration, hinting more than once that he would like to see it possible at least for Americans and British to move “freely over each other’s wide estates with hardly a sense of being foreigners to each other.”

For all that he has meant to us he was this year made an “honorary citizen” of the United States. Unlike Lafayette, his citizenship is clearly honorary; the intent of Congress is that its resolutions “would not have the effect of requiring Sir Winston to be considered a national of the United States under the immigration and nationality laws”, but would constitute “an honor or expression of esteem.”

Lafayette appears to have received full citizenship through having been made a citizen of both Virginia and Maryland before 1789 and thus acquiring United States citizenship when the perfected union was finally established.

Technical or not, the purpose of the United States in respect to Churchill is quite plain: to tell him that in our hearts he is one of us, as he must also be a citizen of all other lands in the free world. (American Council)

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION announces with profound sorrow the death of

MICHAEL WARGYAS

an ILLUSTRIOUS MEMBER of this Association. The Board of Directors in paying final Tribute to the memory of our ILLUSTRIOUS MEMBER, conveys on behalf of the membership of the Association, its' deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.

BON VOYAGE!

Mrs. Steve Úsztok escorts the first group of the Branch 18, Detroit, Michigan, tourists to Hungary.

Since there were too many tourists for one flight, a second group left and was accompanied by Division Manager Steve Úsztok. The two groups met in Amsterdam whence they journeyed together to Budapest.

Hungarians Have Outing in Ohio

Hungarians of southern Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, residents of the mining areas, got together June 23 to hold their traditional yearly picnic sponsored by the Hungarian Club. The event was held in Dillonvale, Ohio under the leadership of Julius Toth and the committee of the club.

William Penn Home Officers who attended the gay and successful outing were President Julius Macker and Secretary Albert J. Stelkovies.

Mrs. Stelkovies accompanied her husband. Mr. Macker addressed the picnickers in Hungarian and Mr. Stelkovies spoke in English.

The picture shows members of the committee and the performers, mostly members of Branch 40, Martins Ferry, Ohio, also President Macker, Secretary and Mrs. Stelkovics, Valentine Konyha, Member of the National Auditing Committee and manager of Branch 40, and Mrs. Konyha.