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Most whites seemed not to mind: they would simply be asked to carry an identity card which the police would not ask them for anyway. Not many of the blacks cared either, for the bulk of them already are numbed from years of carrying cards, passes and permits, which the...
Such parliamentary control, huffed the chancellor, was an infringement of the executive power. He threatened to ask the courts to declare the bill unconstitutional if passed, and demanded that the Bundestag back down. Jaeger would not budge. Having recently visited the U.S., he had seen how "the legislature has the...
Had he been a less dedicated man, the abolitionist preacher called John Gregg Fee might have thought he had done enough for the illiterate mountain folk he had come to serve. On a desolate tract of land donated by Cassius Clay, he had established a whole new community at the...
Each group lives and grows within the frontiers of its own domain, discouraged from emerging by barriers of money, family, profession, taste or education. Each feels bound more to its class than to its generation." Class boundaries in France are often as rigid as Hindu caste lines. Liberty, fraternity and...
" 'Untouchability' is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden," the Indian constitution promised in November 1949. But through much of Nehru's emergent country, the 50-million Hindu untouchables continued to live their menial lives, scorned and ignored by caste-conscious Hindus. Last week Nehru...