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...sidewalks in front of the neat lawns, the neighbors gathered, purse-lipped, inexorable. They called a meeting, formed a committee. In the original deed to the tract, which included the Crocker's lot, they found just what they needed-a stipulation that, though anyone could buy property within the tract, only "Caucasians" could live there. The committee filed an eviction suit. At a hearing last May, Mrs. Crocker pleaded that perpetual race restrictions are against public policy, violate the state and Federal Constitutions...
...Mexican authorities -not the Norteamericanos-decide what the volunteers will do and how they will do it. Their activities are bossed by Mexicans and carried out by Mexican methods, however old-fashioned they may seem by U.S. standards. As in all Friends Service Committee undertakings, religion is manifested in deed rather than word...
...condemn with all our power race hatred." Visit with Gene. Goaded by Rabun, who had served in the war with the Marines, the Georgia Baptists surprised themselves by going on record ". . . that all Christian people of Georgia, particularly Baptists, speak forth with every ounce of energy by word, deed and thought against the so-called patriotic groups which . . . claim race superiority which is neither American nor Christian; that we hereby proclaim . . . that no man shall be discriminated against because of race, creed or color...
...last sentence of your excellent piece on the Manchester Guardian [TIME, Nov. 4] may have read like a non sequitur to many of your readers, carrying as it does the odd implication that by sending the paper's trust deed to America during the war, the Guardian in some mysterious way guaranteed that the paper would carry on, in C. P. Scott's words, "as a public service and not for private profit." May I fill in the mystery of this non sequitur...
...summer of 1940 was black enough for the trustees of the Guardian to get the deed out of England until, at some happier later time, they would be able to have it restored and get back to business on the principles of the Scott Trust. In 1907, Scott decided to pay himself a modest salary, turn any other monies back into the paper, and resolved to draw no more dividends from it. In 1917, he made it impossible that anybody else ever should: he divided the ordinary shares among his sons and son-in-law, to hold impersonally...