CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Typed letter signed to 'My dear Samuel' (possibly Herbert, 1st Viscount Samuel), Colonial Office, 7 December 1909, on British citizenship, which he describes as 'a privilege well worth an earnest effort to win. It is not and ought never to be a mere formality, but rather the solemn acceptance of dignities and duties'; he disagrees however with the current test for citizenship, in which the fee is set much too high, comparing this with the 'odious principle of a poverty test' which enfranchises the rich, however undesirable and 'shuts the door with a slam in the face of a poor man however honestly and high-mindedly he may have lived', 2 pages, 4to , laid down on paper, with a secretarial letter.
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Typed letter signed to 'My dear Samuel' (possibly Herbert, 1st Viscount Samuel), Colonial Office, 7 December 1909, on British citizenship, which he describes as 'a privilege well worth an earnest effort to win. It is not and ought never to be a mere formality, but rather the solemn acceptance of dignities and duties'; he disagrees however with the current test for citizenship, in which the fee is set much too high, comparing this with the 'odious principle of a poverty test' which enfranchises the rich, however undesirable and 'shuts the door with a slam in the face of a poor man however honestly and high-mindedly he may have lived', 2 pages, 4to , laid down on paper, with a secretarial letter.
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Typed letter signed to 'My dear Samuel' (possibly Herbert, 1st Viscount Samuel), Colonial Office, 7 December 1909, on British citizenship, which he describes as 'a privilege well worth an earnest effort to win. It is not and ought never to be a mere formality, but rather the solemn acceptance of dignities and duties'; he disagrees however with the current test for citizenship, in which the fee is set much too high, comparing this with the 'odious principle of a poverty test' which enfranchises the rich, however undesirable and 'shuts the door with a slam in the face of a poor man however honestly and high-mindedly he may have lived', 2 pages, 4to , laid down on paper, with a secretarial letter.
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1874-1965). Typed letter signed to 'My dear Samuel' (possibly Herbert, 1st Viscount Samuel), Colonial Office, 7 December 1909, on British citizenship, which he describes as 'a privilege well worth an earnest effort to win. It is not and ought never to be a mere formality, but rather the solemn acceptance of dignities and duties'; he disagrees however with the current test for citizenship, in which the fee is set much too high, comparing this with the 'odious principle of a poverty test' which enfranchises the rich, however undesirable and 'shuts the door with a slam in the face of a poor man however honestly and high-mindedly he may have lived', 2 pages, 4to , laid down on paper, with a secretarial letter.
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