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Without the Kaiser's empire, Nolde might not have seen the African carvings he parodied in Masks, 1911; three years later, bubbling with fantasies about noble savages, he went to Melanesia with a German expedition, and his ideas of the racial purity of primitive societies led him to an early membership in the Nazi Party. (The relationship between Nazism and expressionist painting was, as Selz discreetly suggests, a good deal less antagonistic than is usually supposed.) But if the cult of the primitive was one aspect of expressionism, the scrutiny of the far less familiar recesses of the psyche...
Like Transkei's Prime Minister, Chief Kaiser Matanzima, who attended the independence ceremonies last week, Mangope is a political conservative without any viable opposition. His BophuthaTswana Democratic Party won overwhelmingly in pre-independence elections, and has 92 out of the 96 seats in the national assembly. Mangope has vowed never to let his territory become a base for black militants or anti-South African terrorists. Some urban blacks have attacked him as a puppet of Pretoria for going along with the independence scheme. Mangope argues that the plan will enable his people to consolidate their political power and thus...
...matter. The first homeland to be granted its "independence," Transkei, celebrated its first anniversary last month. Although invitations to the ceremonies were sent to most Western capitals, Pretoria was the only one to accept. Transkei's Prime Minister, Chief Kaiser Matanzima, took the occasion to attack "the rejection of our legitimacy" by the outside world. In December a second homeland, Bophuthatswana, will officially become independent, and three more are likely to follow within the next two years. The only one definitely holding out against such independence is KwaZulu, whose leader, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, dismisses the whole idea as a sham...
...that once held Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield. In London, he freed himself from a pair of "pick-proof" darbies, the handcuffs used by Scotland Yard. And then, during a European tour, he freed himself from the thumbscrews, elbow irons and chains of the Kaiser's Polizei, and escaped from one of the "carrettes" the Russian Tsar used to transport his prisoners to Siberia. Such feats were always met by the surprise, and frequent embarrassment, of the authorities...
...Brian Weber of Reserve, La., who was passed over for a Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. training program. Kaiser had signed an agreement with the United Steel Workers specifying that for every white given a craft, job, one black would also be selected. On Weber's motion, a district judge enjoined the agreement...