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...Mary Chee's statement that "she couldn't do anything about it because she was a Navajo" is really a fine opening for Soviet propagandists...
...nameless horrffr swept over me as I read of the inhumane treatment of Kee Chee [whose sick baby died in a bus - TIME, Nov. 26] and his family. Though these people are illiterate and can do only menial tasks, the breath of life and of free peoples is within them, and they should be treated as such...
...workers in the sugar-beet fields of the West, for, unlike braceros (from Mexico), they are not protected by treaty regulations. Navajos are cheap; they keep their mouths shut and they do as they are told. When the season ended at Burley, Idaho, a Navajo beet picker named Kee Chee dumbly obeyed orders to get his family on a chartered bus for the long ride home to New Mexico-even though it meant taking his sick, seven-month-old daughter out of a hospital at nearby Bear River City, Utah...
...baggage rack," Mary Chee repeated, weeping. "It make me feel bad all over again in my heart and in my head. But what can I do? I am a Navajo." The busload of Indians followed the police and the doctor who had performed the inquest out into the street when they left. But finally they got back into the bus. Kee Chee sat stiffly with the baby on the seat beside...
Charles Byron '52 provides the international angle with a characterization of Chow Chee, a cannibalistic Communist. Kerry Lyne '52 plays a rambunctious Milwaukee debutante in pursuit of Gwynne...