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...most conspicuous example of this false and American idealism is in Giant's handling of the segregation issue, through the somewhat less flagrant problem of Texan prejudice against Mexican-Americans. The movie does depict the trend in Mexican-Texan relations correctly--only the old settlers do not understand the "messican;" the new generation accepts and even encourages him. But as usual, Hollywood has oversimplified, exaggerating the problem in order to come up with a strikingly optimistic conclusion. No Mexican-American would ever be ejected from any restaurant as in the movie. On the other hand, no son of a Benedict...
...Cairo, meanwhile, President Gamal Abdel Nasser charged the British and French with "flagrant aggression" as air-raid sirens sounded repeatedly and Allied warplanes dominated the air over Suez with round-the-clock assaults on vital installations. Nasser said that he would fight "to the last drop of my blood" rather than "die in slavery...
...practiced interpreter between East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze and avid hunger of the Indian student." At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptions-caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband) and infanticide...
...nearly a decade successive Italian governments, in flagrant violation of the constitution, have blandly retained authoritarian law codes inherited from monarchial and Fascist days. Of the 708 articles of Italian law dealing with public security, all but 30 were originally decreed by Mussolini. Under them Italy's police enjoy such powers as those of forbidding citizens to change their city of residence, of banishing people to remote spots like Sardinia (or Eboli), and of seizing for trial all those who "publicly offend against the honor or dignity of the government." To defend the government's retention of these...
Tito has already shown himself skilled in pursuing the direction Moscow now wants to take. He has found a way of talking to the outside world. He has kept a tight security rein on his country without some of the more flagrant severities of Moscow. It is true that he has botched the running of his economy; the peasants are still poor and dissatisfied. But in this he is no worse than the Russians (neither dares admit that the difficulty is in the system itself). And he has shown agility and a certain style in diplomacy...