Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Tel-Aviv, Jews in battledress attacked an army camp with hand grenades, killed a British officer and a Negro sentry. The British had no time to call out their club-&-shield-toting police pickets (see cut). With a bellow of rage, African native soldiers burst out after the attackers. Storming into the nearby Jewish village of Holon, they sprayed it with bullets, hit anything that moved. Before their officers could round up the berserk blacks, an old man had been riddled with bullets, a boy ripped with bayonets...
Belgium, Australia and New Zealand promptly offered their mandates to UNO. Belgium would give her small, densely-settled, mid-African mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, where police see that every native (except the pygmies) keeps at least 1¼ acres under cultivation. Australia would turn over phosphate-rich Nauru, New Guinea and neighboring islands. New Zealand was ready to relinquish mountainous, copra-producing Western Samoa...
...South African Delegate G. Heaton Nicholls claimed that South-West Africa was too much a part of his country's economy to be put under UNO. Far from being ready to turn over any territory, South Africans want to expand by taking in neighboring British colonies. They are not likely to get their wish; British belief and evidence is that the natives Whitehall rules are immeasurably better off than those under South African control...
...artist, and it was already obvious that his time was short. His lungs were bad. A black-eyed, elegant young fellow, he kept to himself, painted furiously, and destroyed most of it as he went along. Soon Matisse, Picasso, Utrillo and Brancusi took him up, introduced him to cubism, African sculpture, and cafe life. The combination freed him from his academic inhibitions: he began painting pictures that were worth keeping. Then he set about destroying himself...
...horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan. The small, vacant eyes and ski-run nose looked less than human, gave her face the blank, melancholy look of an African mask...