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By unanimous decision, the court decided that "no legislative organ can perform an act of levitation and lift itself above its own powers." This, in effect, voided Prime Minister Malan's attempt to disenfranchise Cape Province's 48,000 half-caste voters by a simple majority in Parliament...
4. The Hindu caste system.
Then, having praised his party's performance, Malenkov proceeded to berate it. The detailed shortcomings: "Great waste and unproductive expenditure . . . inefficient and excessively long railway transportation . . . road transport still badly organized . . . laxness in raising labor productivity ... an acute housing shortage everywhere . . . defective goods." He warned the delegates that "nepotism...
Some of them fell embarrassingly close. Apparently the State Department and Donnelly were correct in saying no "responsible" American official at HICOG knew of BDJ's covert U.S. support. The previous High Commissioner, John J. McCloy, had steadfastly refused to meet BDJ leaders. But shortly after the Reds invaded...
How to Reform Them? The British liquidated the Thugs, a group of professional murderers who contributed a word to the English language. But the others they decided to recognize as a sort of criminal caste. Under the Criminal Tribes Act (1871), the more notorious groups were segregated in special settlements...