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...Hazel Brannan Smith, who runs a small weekly in Durant, Miss.? She knows what it means to attack a corrupt political machine, to have her shop bombed, to be shot at-to print the truth when a law man shot a Negro in the back at close range and then used the old alibi "he was trying to escape...
...Samuel Woodring of the North Augusta (S.C.) Star, who tried to oust the corrupt machine bullies and was beaten up by a police sergeant, called a dirty Rumanian Jew, a Yankee and a Communist? They started a boycott and another newspaper against him -but he didn't quit...
...nattily impersonates the Arab Prince Feisal with obvious and engaging contempt for the whole business, can sweeten the arid piles of camel dung in which he is trapped. It is also good to see Claude Rains back in North Africa, still, as ever, the mysterious servant of a corrupt colonial power. But ditto...
...their own brainwashing." Baldwin fears that "this dishonored past will rise up soon to smite all of us . . .A bill is coming in that I fear America is not prepared to pay." The question of color is a "fearful and delicate problem, which compromises, when it does not corrupt, all the American efforts to build a better world -here, there, or anywhere. It is for this reason that everything white Americans think they believe in must now be re-examined . . . Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality," a distinction that Western nations have...
Trains & Bicycies. Like Böll and Grass -and most of his Group 47 contemporaries-Uwe Johnson, 28, views today's Germany as the dangerous and corrupt legacy of yesterday. But his main target is less the confrontation of the past than the misunderstood present. Johnson, who grew up in East Germany and moved (not fled, he insists) to the West in 1960, has become famous writing about the side he came from and the interplay across the border. Johnson's books seem to offer Germans the gloomiest of choices. East Germany is a police state, less oppressive...