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THERE WERE of course, some Brahmins who opposed the league and its activities, people Mrs. Solomon refers to as "The Minority with Faith." Charles William Eliot was one of these: his successor. President Lowell, was not, Eliot, Josiah Royce, William James, and Emily Balch all rejected the Ango-Saxon superiority theories of the restrictionists. As Mrs. Solomon says of Eliot...
...have blamed the opposition on intimidation by a black organization called the African National Council. The government has arrested more than 1,500 people in the past six weeks. It has placed in detention without trial four well-known critics of Smith's regime-two blacks, African Politician Josiah Chinamano and his wife, and two whites, Southern Rhodesia's onetime Prime Minister Garfield Todd and his daughter Judith. Last week the regime bowed to British pressure by transferring the Todds from prison to house arrest on their ranch near Shabani; it also moved the Chinamanos to house arrest...
...Died. Josiah Red Wolf, 98, last survivor of the Nez Perce War of 1877; in Lewiston, Idaho. Red Wolf was four when Chief Joseph's people were relentlessly attacked by the U.S. Cavalry as they made their famous retreat across the wilds of Idaho and Montana. In a major battle at Big Hole Basin, Montana, many of the Nez Perces were killed, including Red Wolf's mother and sister. Finally, on Oct. 5, 1877, Chief Joseph surrendered to the cavalry in Montana's frigid Bear Paw Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands...
...Kennedy, needing at least 60 per cent of the vote and cautiously predicting 65, romped over former Republican state chairman Josiah Spaulding with 67 per cent of the total vote, but received moderate to heavy "blanking" -leaving both choices open-in many Democratic areas...
...Massachusetts, Senator Edward Kennedy is expected to win easily over Republican challenger Josiah Spaulding, although it is generally conceded that Kennedy's plurality cannot be smaller than 60 per cent if he is to have a political future outside the state...