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...Africa's problem No. 1 today as the racial deadlock, said it distorts all major issues brought before Parliament and prevents united progressive action on native (Negro) policy, industrialization, agriculture and a dozen other major problems. Wrote he: "Nationalists want an Afrikaans Herrenvolk Republic, British extremists want a jingo Dominion. If no positive move is made to break this deadlock, the Smuts Government will collapse within five years. Chaos will follow which may end in a fight to the death between Englishmen and Afrikanders...
Nobody knows who wrote God Save the King, or when. It became popular in England in 1745, when its jingo second verse was apparently a direct reference to the efforts of the Stuarts to regain the British throne...
...magician trying to pull a hat out of a rabbit, a seaman shaving in a hurricane, slapsticky Lou Costello is a successful clown. But most of it is South Sea stuffing, Hollywood style, with only two notable exceptions: a breakaway tune called Vingo Jingo (authors: Don Raye and Gene DePaul), and radio's vibrant-voiced Nan Wynn, now visible for the first time after her anonymous role as Rita Hayworth's singing voice in My Gal Sal (TIME...
...JAPAN PLANS TO WIN-Kinoaki Matsuo-Little, Brown ($2.50). Translation of a jingo propaganda work revealing pre-Pearl Harbor designs against the U.S., by an alleged Japanese intelligence officer...
From the days of Japan's first Emperor, Jimmu (one of whose female descendants had the wonderfully prescient name Jingo), the Imperial Throne has had its ups and its downs. At present the position of the Son of the Sun is at highest noon. Richer than all the Caesars, robed in 2,000 years of resplendent (if slightly manipulated) tradition, worshiped as a God by 72,000,000 emotional people, Hirohito is the earth's rarest vessel of authority...