Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CIVIL RIGHTS To the Roots Attorney General William P. Rogers, heavily occupied with civil rights legalisms during his two-year tenure, last week angrily tongue-lashed the Mississippi grand jury that ignored evidence uncovered by the FBI after the lynching of Mack Charles Parker last April (TIME, Nov. 16). The grand-jury performance, said he, "was as flagrant and calculated a miscarriage of justice as I know of." The grand jury's failure to return indictments for the Negro's murder showed the need for a new federal "criminal statute" to protect civil rights. "The nation will...
Oregon-born (Klamath Falls) Harvard-man ('41) Charlie Porter, a World War II Air Corps ground officer, settled down quietly on the lowly House Post Office and Civil Service Committee after his election in 1956. But like others of the species, he soon discovered that international affairs could bring him fame of a sort and big headlines back home. The discovery came when he commendably tried to find out what had happened to one of his constituents. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy. Murphy disappeared and was reported murdered after telling how he piloted a plane that carried Basque Scholar Jesus...
...Department repeatedly refused to validate his passport. Porter sued Secretary of State Christian Herter, charging violation of congressional rights-but prudently trimmed his travel plans to include only Formosa, Japan and Okinawa. His official mission was to interview civilian employees abroad and report back to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee on the state of their morale, but Porter clearly had bigger things in mind. Just before his take-off early this month, he proclaimed that Nationalist China's President "Chiang Kai-shek should be sent to an old soldiers' home, preferably one with barbed wire around...
Some influential British civil servants now privately concede that Britain's postwar isolation from the Continent may have been a historic mistake in foreign policy. But dominant forces in both the Conservative and Labor parties seem reluctant to leave the safety of the three familiar circles. The old isolation speaks to something basic in British pride. The government's attitude toward Europe still seems to be to procrastinate and to improvise. Britons argue that Franco-German amity is unnatural, that a European movement without Britain is bound to fade once De Gaulle or Adenauer is gone, and that...
...with Their Feet. Last week Belgium announced that it intended to do just that. And at almost the same moment, civil war broke out in Ruanda. A minor quarrel between a subchief of the Muhutus and a group of Watutsis sparked bloody incidents all over the country. Armed bands of Muhutus, feeling the strength of their superior numbers, turned almost every hill into a natural fortress. Though the Muhutus left the Watutsi women and children alone, they showed no mercy to the males: those they did not kill they maimed by chopping off their feet. They put banana plantations...