Citizen of the World

Up until a year ago, redheaded Garry Davis was a gay dog. New York's bars and bistros knew him well. He was the son of Meyer Davis, bandleader to the famed & fashionable. A bomber pilot in the European theater during the war, he returned to Broadway and a promising career on the stage. Then, said his father, "he turned 100% serious." He organized a chapter of World Federalists, kept away from the Sardi set. A month ago he sailed for Europe.

Last week Garry, now 26, walked into the U.S. Embassy in Paris and renounced his U.S. citizenship. He explained: "I can no longer give my sole loyalty to a sovereign nation state ... I love the U.S. and want to see . . . the democratic principles on which it was founded extended to include the whole world."

Garry planned to go to Germany, because "I am responsible for some of the damage there." There he might meet another citizen of the world, 24-year-old Harvardman Henry Martyn Noel Jr., who renounced his U.S. citizenship three months ago (TIME, March 1), is now a bricklayer in Kassel, where he lives over a pigsty.

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