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...speech Engelhard delivered in Johannesburg: "Fuller use must be made of potential skills and capacities of all peoples who make up the population of South Africa. And this calls for more widespread education so that leadership and ability can develop in all sections of the community, and the non-European must have the opportunity to improve his standard of living, if he is to be encouraged to work alongside the European." Mr. Croft further reported that The New York Times quoted Engelhard as saying: "South Africa, for world acceptance, must begin to realize the dignity of man as a basic...
...camera draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white-coated man who seems to be a doctor. This man now speaks, dictating notes to a secretary: "Lower lip fleshy . . . prognathous jaw typical of non-European races ... could well belong to the Semitic race . . . case doubtful...
...between the principles and the potential on the one hand and the reality on the other is still frighteningly wide, even within America. Americans of non-European descent are still having to struggle to achieve for themselves their full rights as American citizens, equal with all others. Extreme poverty, and even hunger, exist among a sizable minority of American people. There appears to be almost a breakdown of many of the public and communal services which are vital to civilized life and in respect of which we would expect America to be an example to the rest of struggling humanity...
...should also be placed on record that the attempt to start an international organization last year did not fail through lack of funds, but rather through a majority feeling that such an organization was unnecessary. Its supporters were almost exclusively non-European women, who have this year established their own international women's group...
Sarid says the social gap between Jews of European and non-European background is as important in Israel as foreign policy, but that defense needs almost always take precedence...