Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analysis will reveal whether a landlord has rented to Jewish, foreign, non-white, Asian, or African students. Hunt declared that the housing office "will do anything it can to discourage discrimination of any kind," but he said bias would not result in automatic refusals to list a room...
...North African political figures sent into exile or to prison are called éloignés (distant ones). Last week in French Morocco and Tunisia two such distant ones were close at hand. Both were nationalists whom the French had once deported; both were also moderates on whom both Frenchman and Arab must now depend if calm is to be restored in North Africa...
Since it joined the U.N., South Africa has persistently invoked this Charter article to resist U.N. inquiries into the question of racial discrimination in the South African Union. Long before its present intolerant leadership got control of the country, Field Marshal Jan Smuts contended in 1946 that "the question of the U.N.'s right to intervene in the domestic affairs of a member state is vital to the whole concept...
...rifleman, even after its heart and lungs have been pierced by a bullet from a .30-caliber rifle, is fully as deadly as a lion. And a pronghorn antelope racing across the plains at 70 m.p.h. will test a hunter's marksmanship almost as sternly as an African impala...
...North African problem will be solved not by attacking French and Arab political differences, but by encouraging westerners with non-violent ideals to live with and teach illiterate North African Moslems, said Rev. Andre Trocme, International Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. at an FOR meeting last night...