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...Citizenship" in the June 27 issue ... I felt no sorrow over the Chinese sailor losing his white wife whose marriage was annulled, but I was astonished to see the verdict of Justice Buchanan of the Virginia Supreme Court: "... the state . . . will preserve the racial integrity . . . not have a mongrel breed . . . prevent the obliteration of racial pride" . . . as against such American national slogans as "equality," "land of freedom," etc. I am proud of my race...
Lady and the Tramp (Walt Disney; Buena Vista) draws a bead on the susceptible hearts of some 20 million U.S. dog lovers with a 75-minute Cinema-Scope cartoon of the romance between a high-bred cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mongrel (Tramp) from the wrong side of the tracks. But, in humoring dog lovers, Disney may well lose friends among cat fanciers for his venomous portrait of a brace of Siamese cats (named Si and Am) that are noticeably lacking in the virtuous qualities that abound in the canine kingdom...
...first time and upheld it. Said Justice Archibald C. Buchanan: "We are unable to read in the 14th Amendment . . . any words or intendment which prohibit the state from enacting legislation to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens . . . so that it shall not have a mongrel breed of citizens. We find there is no requirement that the state shall not legislate to prevent the obliteration of racial pride, but must permit the corruption of blood, even though it weaken or destroy the quality of its citizenship. Both sacred and secular history teach that nations have better advanced in human progress...
There were various reasons for this. The trials were conducted "by officials sick with the weariness left by a great war." The code that governed them was a mongrel code, "a compromise between the English and American procedures." It proved to be diametrically opposed to democratic German law because it bound the accused men, on pain of perjury, to speak the truth on oath, whereas German law would have given them .the right to lie to the full in their own defense. To the prisoners and their many supporters in Germany, Nuremberg was a put-up piece of legal chicanery...
Despite its dating back to 1726, Wadsworth House has long since blended into the general chaos of Harvard architecture, and there are probably not ten students in every hundred who could direct a tourist to it. Surrounded by Lehman, Grays, and Boylston, it is the yellow mongrel--part wood, part brick--wagged by the long tail of Wigglesworth...