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South Africa's Jim Crow laws discriminate against the country's 300,000 East Indians as well as its 8,000,000 Negroes. India has found a simple way to retaliate. It simply clamped an embargo on all exports to South Africa, including jute bags, in which India has a near world monopoly. South Africa uses 15,000 tons of bags every year for packaging its crops. Negroes and poor whites use them as beds, blankets, carpets and doormats. Now old bags are being patched like tire tubes. A farmer who clothed his Negro laborers in jute, with...
...There is only one question," wrote Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop after President Truman's surprise victory in 1948, "on which professional politicians, polltakers, political reporters and other wiseacres and prognosticators can any longer speak with much authority. That is how they want their crow cooked...
...great, grey-green, greasy (as Kipling called it) Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees," is sometimes called Africa's Mason-Dixon Line. Reason: it divides "Jim Crow" South Africa from the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, where "white-black partnership" is at least theoretically the rule...
...counties. Aided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state's wildlife authorities have mobilized more than 100 skilled game wardens armed with traps and poison. Their aim is to clear foxes from "control corridors" twelve to 16 miles wide around the infected area. Favorite bait is crow carcasses laced with strychnine and buried in "dirt holes" where foxes cache surplus food. Most wild animals dislike crow, but foxes have nothing against it. Each poisoned bait will be carefully mapped, and signs to warn humans will be posted around it. Foxes are admittedly wily, but they cannot read...
Patterson, who is awaiting trial on charges of contempt of Congress, went on, "American morals are worse than those of Nazi Germany before the War," and he forecast more race riots and lynchings in 1952. "Most of our churches are Jim Crow churches, so they must worship a Jim Crow God," he noted...