Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civilization, white South African style, did everything it could to thwart Scott's mission. Though denied official standing, he managed to tell U.N. members of the black man's plight. Three times the General Assembly asked the Union of South Africa to place the onetime German colony under international control. Three times the Union refused. As of today, the Union government of Premier Daniel Malan has all but annexed South West Africa...
...plea for basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...
Adenauer, e.g., black-bearded Alois Hund-hammer, Bavarian Minister of Education who successfully sabotaged U.S. Military Government efforts to reform the German school system...
...muscle left, the Socialist Force Ouvrère, France's second largest labor federation, called a one-day general strike, set it for a Friday. The Communist-run federation of labor (CGT) gleefully announced that it was going to strike, too, trumpeted that France would never forget its black Friday. As it turned out, strikebound Friday was at worst only a dull grey. According to the Ministry of Interior, the strike" was 100% effective in the northern and eastern coal mines, in the ports, in some metal industries. But a majority of France's union members openly defied...
...other children, the crew and three nurses, were dead. Miraculously, Isaac had suffered little more than a black eye and a sprained arm. The child smiled at the lumberjack and said in halting French: "I have come here to go to school. Take me to the school...