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...ultimate purpose of the "invidious" nationality quotas, he declared was to perptuate the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic character of the American population. "If there was justification for this act in the xenophobia of 1924, there is no longer such an excuse," he said...
Angola prison is a favorite hunting ground of Folklorist Harry Oster. A scholarly teacher of English at Louisiana State University, Oster roams the streets and backlands of his adopted state to record its rich musical patois-French, Cajun, Negro French, Anglo-Saxon. In four years he has spaded up material that many a folklorist would give his magnetized recorder heads...
After graduation from Havana University, Castro spent much of his time defending poverty stricken peasants caught in the snares of the intricate Cuban laws. Cuban law is derived from the Spanish, rather than Anglo-Saxon, tradition, which accounts for some of the misunderstanding incurred between Americans and Cubans, especially over the question of trials. The Latin American conception of justice includes not only objective considerations of evidence, but human factors, personality and prevailing emotion...
...strengths of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence that a government-appointed commission can frequently put the government itself in the dock and block its course. Last week a four-man British commission, headed by respected High Court Justice Sir Patrick Devlin, brought in a report on its six-week investigation of the nationalist uprisings last March in Nyasaland, the African territory run by London's Colonial Office. The report flatly called Nyasaland a "police state," and its findings may jeopardize the merger of black Nyasaland with the black and white Rhodesias into a Central African Federation, which is plumping for self...
Hanson: The Lament for Beowulf (Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and Eastman School of Music Chorus; Mercury, mono and stereo). An early (1925), timbrel-thumping excursion into myth that seems as far from Anglo-Saxon England as Composer Hanson's birthplace (Wahoo, Neb.). The chorus protests too much, but in the gently welling final eulogy, the work stirs with a sweetly nostalgic, gracefully dappled light...