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Most exotic group of convicted objectors (7%) were Negro "Moslems," who discard their "slave names" when they embrace their new religion and presently get new ones (like John Jones Bey) from Mecca. Their reason for refusal to serve was simple: In Mecca, war has not been declared...
...centrifuged to separate the light-colored fluid (plasma) from the red blood corpuscles. The plasma-60% of the blood's volume-may save a life in Africa; the red residue goes down the sewer, because red blood corpuscles quickly spoil. New York's Lederle Laboratories alone discard over 1,000 pints...
Great Britain, whose Colonial Service has been known to discard young men who showed an undue interest in the Empire's other races, had never faced the "race problem" at home. Ninety per cent of Britain's citizens had never actually seen or talked to a black-skinned human being before. America's polite, liquid-voiced, smartly uniformed Negro soldiers were a surprise, a pleasure, and a happy opportunity for them to thumb the nose of moral self-righteousness at the U.S. Britain's hospitable small homes were thrown open to white & black alike...
...thanks to the appalling power of human ingenuity) is not far off Another war or two will do it, if this one fails. But if, as Wells believes, Homo Tewler is a bundle of terribly conditioned reflexes, then he is redeemable. First however, he must discard his mental and social shackles, do the two things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason and quit being careful. The same instruments, Wells argues, which have made Tewlers what they are—and the world what it is—can also make the world one community for the teaching, healing saving of Homo...
...makes the mistakes of age-the inability to learn lessons, unwillingness to discard elderly inefficients, and, above all, dislike of contact with younger men whose minds are still elastic and in their prime. We are told . . . [Churchill] is indispensable; I deny that. We are told he is a great international figure and therefore must not be criticized, far less removed; I am unable to agree. International figures are made, not born. If you will make me Minister of Information with no more than the present powers over the press and radio, I will guarantee to make a sack of potatoes...