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Show Becoming an American Within the last six years more than one million persons cut their last ties with the "old country" and became citizens of the United States. And now, uith America at war, there is a rush to be American. ior is there anything difficult about attaining citi-zenship citi-zenship in the U. S. The following series of photos shows you some of the steps taken by the foreign-born in becoming American. Awaiting their turn to file first papers in one of the ante rooms of the naturalization bureau. Many of these applicants have known oppression and are eager to cut ties with the past. felt iff J c I I s " RSVP This huge pile of applications ap-plications is only a small part of the year's total. The girl is sorting sort-ing them for further action. Here are clerks checking applications ap-plications for citizenship against an index containing confidential information. A courtroom scene during the naturalization of a group of applicants. ap-plicants. 7 he judge (back to camera) is administering the oath of allegiance to the bmtcd States of America. r r Z aXL I s it - r : , -If 1 f C t , i. " ' " t ' f f , U last if?p. Accompanied by two witnesses, an applicant for naturalization is shown taking the oath at time of filing petition for citizenship. This U the application for the final papers. A veritable toiver of babel is this room of a naturalization bureau, where skilled linguists question the applicants. |