#arbitrary labels

“Asks ‘What Am I?’, ‘Czech’, Says Court,” Toronto Star. March 17, 1939. Page 33. ---- London, Ont., Man Thought ‘European’ Closest He Could Come --- Special to The Star London, Ont., March 17. - Mike Jugoda presented a puzzle to Magistrate C. W. Hawkshaw today. Filling out the court record after convicting him of theft, Magistrate Hawkshaw asked him his nationality. Mike, hesitated, and finally ventured ‘European’. ‘That’s no good, I must have the country,’ his worship said. ‘Well,’ Mike said,’ when I was born it was Austria; when I left for Canada, it was Czecho-Slovakia; now...(with a helpless gesture), I don’t know what it it is.’ His worship entered him as Czech.