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South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan has carried out a policy of relentless Jim Crow segregation and suppression against both blacks and Indians. Last week in the Union's third largest city, Durban, where some 124,000 of the white masters live dangerously close to native quarters teeming with twice as many blacks and about 110,000 Indians, the smouldering resentment of South Africa's Negroes sprang to flame. Inexplicably, they turned it against the only people more oppressed than themselves...
...seek to end segregated education. Less hidebound Southerners propound the familiar slow-and-easy thesis. The South desperately wants hard cash, but within its existing "cultural framework." The North wants to test the southern devotion to principle: can the South refuse federal aid on the segregation issue? Perhaps Jim Crow in education may prove too expensive a luxury...
...Hopeful. Stocky, sandy-haired Peter Blume is an old hand at big things-which sell for four-and five-figure sums. One of his first was South of Scranton, a surrealistically weird picture of sailors soaring through the air under a crow's nest, which took first prize at the 1934 Carnegie International and now resides in the basement of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. His next was the Museum of Modern Art's Eternal City-in which a bilious, jack-in-the-box Mussolini rules over a ruined square. "I hope," says Blume fervently, "that...
Operation Crow. In December-the last month for unrestricted immigration of war brides and war fiancées-migration became a flood. The U.S. organized a special airlift (incongruously named Operation Crow) to bring Europeans across the Atlantic. Chartered planes flew others across the Pacific...
...Federal Council, in its "Statement on Human Rights," went on record as opposing Jim Crow in any form-and called for equal, nonsegregated participation of all races in all phases of the "social and public life of the community," including housing, education, recreation, transportation and businesses serving the public "such as stores, theaters, hotels and restaurants...