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Demarest was 18 and majoring in Anglo-Saxon and pre-Shakespearean drama at Oxford's Magdalen College in 1942 when he decided to return to the U.S. and help fight the war. At Liverpool he joined the crew of a U.S. freighter bound for New York. His British training hardly prepared Mike for his rugged American shipmates, but he found them so fascinating and life at sea in wartime so exciting that he signed up with the Merchant Marine soon after he landed in New York. "By the time the war ended," he said, "I just couldn...
...darkest Africa, where the British introduced soccer along with other Anglo-Saxon blessings, one-shoed King Freddie of Buganda, leading a clutch of his chiefs, kicked off with his bare foot against a team of Britons calling themselves the Abagurusi (Senile Ones). Cantabrigian Freddie, 31, whose popularity forced...
...America, college life is one of exemplary ease. I liked Harvard for its naive display of an idealized Anglo-Saxon world, engendered by the memories of emigres, for the dazzling colors in the humid warmth--halls, monuments and lawns arising from a deluge in which European civilization would have perished. At Harvard, white and blue bulbous bell-towers of the dormitories, with their splendor comparable to English chateaux, the Anthenian or Napoleonic-styled libraries, the trees sprayed with D.D.T. every week, Memorial Hall (which is a miniature Westminster), all appear to have been constructed to reassure young Americans...
...examples of Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and increased stirring in other states. Far more significant, too, there is the wail of Jim Eastland to his Deep South colleagues that, unless integration in the border states is stopped, it will inevitably spread to his center of Anglo-Saxon purity. But this period, with its trials, disappointments, and its bitterness, has also served to remind people of what Southern liberals have often said--in a sometimes weak and strained voice: that the issue must be handled with a delicacy almost new to American social and political progress...
...crisis. The A.F.L.-C.I.O., which set out to combat racial discrimination as one of the prime aims of the unified labor movement, has offended many Southern unionists and unorganized workers by supporting integration. In Alabama and Tennessee angered locals are threatening to secede from parent unions, demand lily-white, "Anglo-Saxon" unions...