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...hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that." A lady, calmly knitting in the shelter of the two walls of her house that still stand, replies to a curious passerby: "Yes, since 1940. I wasn't going to let Hitler crow that...
...arrived at his liberal views by patient, thoughtful effort and constant conflict with his patrician heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North will find...
...Minister Jan Christian Smuts has also tried for years to temper the country's harsh anti-Indian color laws. The latest of them, which has caused South Africa's voteless Indians to hum like a swarming hive, is a Natal ordinance dividing the whole province into Jim Crow residential zones. Smuts...
...March-on-Washington Movement." Also nonviolent mass marches around plants and offices whose owners discriminate against Negroes, followed by picketing, boycotting. Southern Negroes should set aside a day when they refuse to send their children to Jim Crow schools, boycott streetcars, busses, trains...
...Afro-American chain of Negro newspapers (Baltimore, Washington, Newark, Philadelphia, Richmond, circ. 208,835) came out for Tom Dewey because: 1) "the abuse and Jim Crow of the 800,000 colored soldiers ... is shocking and heart-sickening"; 2) "a fourth term would set a precedent that . . . may in the future become tragic for a minority"; 3) 16 years as President "is beyond the physical strength...