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Boer women, Negroes and half-caste girls. Last spring the minister used his powers under the Nationalists' all-embracing Suppression of Communism Act to boot Solly out of his job in the Garment Workers' Union. Last week he hauled Sachs before a Johannesburg magistrate's court on...
*In 1606, Father Robert de' Nobili, an Italian Jesuit in south India, adopted saffron robes and lived like a Hindu holy man. He made converts among high-caste Hindus, but had to fight off the charges of apostasy made against him by literal-minded fellow priests. Similar missionary techniques...
The egalitarian Manchester Guardian did not mind money spent on public pageantry but thought there might be less royal money wasted on levees based on "social differentiation and caste exclusiveness. These we can dispense with unless we choose to continue presentations at Court for the sake of eager debutantes from...
In South Africa's textile factories, white girls, most of them Afrikaners (of Dutch descent), work willingly alongside half-caste and Negro girls. The man mainly responsible for such amity is a 50-year-old Russian-born Jew named Emil Solomon Sachs. Secretary of the garment workers' union...
At the airport in Formosa, Barkeley is met by his interpreter, a seductive half-caste named Rita Lo-yang. Without hesitation, the agent makes a heavy play for Rita; though for all he knows her father is Mao Tsetung. Rita, however, takes no advantage of his importunity; she refuses to...