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...minority might endure such a system without protest, but South Africa's black majority did not. In 1960 came the bloody Sharpeville riot, in which 69 were killed as police fired on a black crowd demonstrating peaceably against the pass laws. It was a shock from which South Africans???black and white?never quite recovered...
...SOUTH AFRICANS???Sarah Gertrude Millin?Boni & Liveright ($3.50). South Africa and its little muttering wars, the noise of the mines under the hot sun, the songs that the Dutch vintners sing and the old curses that black men shout in the alleys of Johannes-burg?for most people these are far away. They are heard only as a confused murmur, a distant and broken music...
...Excellency, sleek black President Charles D. B. King of Liberia is referred to by President Coolidge as "my great and good friend" (TIME, Feb. 18, 1924). Last week the great and good President had reason to beam with Afric joy. His Congress?composed exclusively of property-owning negroid Africans???has just voted to extend a helping hand to an Akron rubberman...
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