The motivation for my becoming an American citizen was very simple, that my children were not acknowledged by the British Government. I had two children when I was still a British subject and Her Majesty's Government declared them to be illegitimate and therefore not entitled to passports. And so that was a real problem. I had a daughter who was stateless and it was a real hassle to travel around with this stateless child. Every country where we went we had to have a special visa for her. So she was very happy, she loved to be stateless because it was something special, but I wasn't too happy about that. And so I became an American citizen for that reason. So once I was an American citizen the American government wisely gave them citizenship: whether they were illegitimate or not it was not their concern, so when I became a citizen they automatically got it too. But the consequence of becoming a citizen, of course, was also very pleasant for me in that I could be involved in American politics.

[Q] And you became a citizen in '60... I mean '50...

It was actually... January '57, I think it was. And so it was about as soon as I could have, and the only jarring note was that when I actually got the citizenship there was a judge who awarded the citizenship and he gave us a patriotic pep talk in which he talked to us as if we were escaped prisoners coming from lands of slavery to the land of freedom, which I didn't quite agree with, but I didn't make any protest.