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...TIME correspondents in Cairo, London, Washington, Chungking, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Boston, Mexico City, Algiers, Buenos Aires, Poona, Ankara, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Ottawa, Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, the Gold Coast, Chicago, Honolulu, Dublin, Seattle, New Delhi, Anchorage, Johannesburg; and with U.S. Navy task forces and Army expeditionary forces...
Last fortnight the Negro problem suddenly boiled over. In teeming Johannesburg thousands of native milk deliverymen, meat workers, municipal laborers and food factory employes went on strike. Negro pickets attacked scabs, defiant municipal workers barricaded themselves in compounds against the police...
...strikes ended and the Negroes won some gains. But last week there was bitterness among the Afrikanders. To them the color bar remained a sacred thing. Die Transvaler, Johannesburg, supported by the fascist-minded Malanite Herenigde, warned of the trend toward equalization, cited "horrifying" instances of white women offering cigarets to black soldiers. Spat Die Transvaler at Premier Smuts: "You have forfeited the right to be mentioned in the same breath with great Afrikanders. Do you want future generations to refer to your name with horror...
They fell in love in Johannesburg. Bennie Hermer was the young resident physician in Durban's King Edward VIII Hospital. Olda Mehr was a concert pianist, pretty, 18, with glowing black eyes. When she won the Royal Music Academy Award in 1938, she sailed for London, promising she would come back in a year to be married...
...Physicians and Surgeons, and two were analysts for Standard Statistics before they came to TIME . . . One (a graduate economist) researched for the OPA in Washington-and one was a reporter in Europe from the Austrian Anschluss to the Polish invasion. Another came to us from the Sunday Express of Johannesburg, South Africa; another worked for the AP in Copenhagen until the Nazis came; still another ran a Wall Street investment office practically single-handed for two years . . . And our most erudite is an art and archeology graduate of the University of Paris, got her doctorate at Columbia in fine arts...