European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May 1985 columns William Safire Murdoch by a Man without a country Rupert the multimedia Baron from became an establishment figure in Britain when he bought the times of before he created a stir when he bought the new York founded in 1801 by Alexander now he will be forced to sell the along with the Chicago to pursue his dream of a fourth television network in America and ultimately production and broadcasting facilities Cir cling the because Law prohibits anyone who owns a newspaper in any City from acquiring a television station that a Good preventing the creation of new local Media and Murdoch wisely has said he will not try to circumvent but another insignificant impediment exists to assure National control of our own Federal Law prohibits an alien from owning More than a fifth of a television that no real problem for who has been a resident alien in the for 10 years and is More than eligible for to meet the Legal requirements for station ownership and apparently for no other reason he intends to become an anything wrong with that from americas Point of not a bit we Naturalize immigrants every and Rupert Murdoch is just the sort of entrepreneurial Type we want to attract one who will generate jobs and pay taxes and Challenge the but what about his motives is it right for anybody to become a citizen just to get around a Law blocking foreign ers from Media control int it True that his main reason for becoming a citizen is simple greed and lust for Power that largely but i dont have any trouble with although some immigrants have come to America As or to escape persecution or most newcomers Over the years have been drawn mainly by our economic the streets May not have been paved with but Opportunity has been the main like George Washington Murdoch seen his Opportunity and took what is about the off hand Way this australian immigrant approaches his oath of allegiance to the George will we appreciate Hundred Miu Joh mute United states a moment that can be so moving and uplifting to those who approach it with reverence it is the Way he is detaching him self from his native he says he loves and we can believe be cause that free country is the source of his cultural heritage and was the scene of his initial publishing he has made it appear that Only Australia unfortunate unwillingness to permit dual citizenship makes it necessary for him to that just not to become an Ameri can citizen he will have to say these words i hereby declare on that i absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure All allegiance and Fidelity to any foreign state or sovereignty of whom or which i have heretofore been a subject or a Only Switzerland and Greece ignore that oath and claim anyone born in those countries to be a citizen most nations have a National Pride that takes an oath of allegiance with utmost but Murdoch Embarrass ment about rejecting his National roots is his private not ours my problem is with the treatment of citizenship As a convenience or there should be much More to it than i am a tending toward Jin Goist even in the when were not supposed i Root for our America the Beautiful gets to such sen and our foreign policy beliefs assert the National interest rather than International Rupert Murdoch eyes May grow misty at Waltzing but his out look is the opposite of he is the multinational a True citizen of Murdoch Ai Tsaun the or at least of the free he is at Home in new York and and he pays Liege to no political his i is More to Universal concepts than to any Mere political he by a Man without a racing through an he will fill out the space for nationality with a scribbled but it will have Little meaning for in greeting Rupert multinational As our new fellow we should remind him that allegiance Means sometimes passionate we can Hope that his proud and brisk i am a station owner will one Day be replaced by a More pro found and rewarding i am an Ameri o1985 new York times Syndicate be pen is lightning Rod Tor French voters grievances Vrh v the who Are too intellectually proud to borrow political Are trying to reinvent Reagan with an impudent air of the Case for tax the entrepreneurship the whole although France is Ripe for a Ronald the Frothy political system has churned up Only a George a person gifted As a political lightning Rod for gathering and concentrating but implausible As a National he is Jeanmarie be a Burly a paratrooper who lost an Eye in a political Brawl in the streets in and who says that the afr asian threat of Immi Grants to France is the Vanguard of the barbarians storming the last when his party Drew More than 2 million a Paris headline asked Are there fascists in France the answer is but there Are at least that Many people who Are in a surly mood about the presence of 4 million Immi especially those from North one of be pens slogans is a stroke of mischievous Genius my program is what you Are his aim is to make it acceptable to proclaim things that hitherto have Only such As France is being invaded and submerged by posters about the Battle of where be pen Are sold at his he has sued publications that have said he tortured algerians during the but it is unclear that the charge has Hurt him with his when he says that parisian salons mis understand the real he is but he has theatrical when word reached Frances foreign at a meeting of third world that Andropov had the minister proposed a moment of this enraged be pen during a television asked Why not a minute of silence for victims of and proceeded to stand and stare into the camera for a minute while his interviewers babbled and the nation if his National front is not to be considered he should Stop talking about uniting All the forces of the nation in a one of his colleagues the jews have a tendency to occupy All the key posts in Western it is said that when Madame Simone a popular French politician and a survivor of was mentioned at a National front the crowd veil Back to Ausch be pen and his movement Are unpleasant manifestations of Many including and the dissolution of old ideological the four communist ministers have left Francois Mitterrand gov and the communist party now proclaims itself the Only authentic voice of the but that is less a boast than a dreadful confession now that leftism is in once Frances largest party and a vehicle for protest the communist party popularity is lower than at any time in half a reality has dragged Mitterrand socialist govern ment so far rightward that moderate conservatives Are having trouble complaining which is half the fun of and 98 percent of the fun of oppose when socialism becomes watery some sup porters of righting parties slide further to the right to acquire a More distinctive be pen is a consequence of so or at least severe in another sense he has been produced by slow economic when the Job Market is As Europe has been for slow growth makes economic life seem like a Zero sum game in which anyone gain must be a proportionate subtraction from someone else in such Cir people become bitter about outsiders get Ting in the Frances economic stagnation is in Large measure a result of the suffocating weight of the omnipresent and Omni provident which has grown to disastrous pro portions imposing compassionate judgments about the allocation of wealth and sole pen is an 2w of Peru hist0fy of the doctrine of Unin tended effects the doctrine that the unintended effects of social policies sometimes Are opposite and More important than the intended be and the National irritability that has produced i in a consequence of the compassionate impulse in Washington Post writers group