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"But there is the other side to the picture, the ugly side of cruelty, brutality and utter bestiality, the ruthlessness and rapaciousness of the Japanese military machine which brought on this war. That Japanese military machine and military caste and military system must be utterly crushed. . . .
A Sanatani Hindu, Gandhi accepts Varna (color), while disavowing the caste system, but stands by the concept of caste in marriage and the profession as the law of heredity. The principle of Swadeshi (home manufacture, i.e., spinning) is akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor...
The arrival of U.S. troops and base-building dollars brought an inflationary spiral and a minor social revolution. In Jamaica, where Jim Crow was unknown before, some soldiers and civilian base workers tried to order "niggers" out of clubs and bars they had been frequenting for years. Others, failing to...
Cradle of Hate. Itagaki was born at precisely the right time. In 1885, when his peasant mother bore him in Iwate Prefecture, the Samurai grip on the Japanese army had been broken for twelve years. Until 1873, only the sons of Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and...
THE CASTLE ON THE HILL-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to...