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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risk, the abandonment of all the gentle things of life. Men support, needless to say, the heaviest and most terrible part of the sacrifice. Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from pitying the women who want to be brave, but who do not know how, and who must invent, each one for herself, a personal heroism...
Unchallenged were six seats won by the Communists, seating this party for the first time in a Cuban Constituent Assembly. Neutral observers in Havana agreed that Colonel Batista had gained in moral stature last week by giving Cuba one of the few fairly conducted elections it has ever had. That his reward was defeat at the polls was due, they thought, not so much to dislike of the genial Dictator as to an unreasoning eruption of Cuban disgust at hard times and a tendency to blame these on the Government...
Mohammedanism sets up one God, one Prophet; Hinduism worships a great pantheon of gods. Hindus worship images, and fill their temples with ikons, which offend Moslems deeply. Their mosques must depend on color, material, texture for their beauty, and all decoration is pure geometry. To the Moslem a pig is unclean, and by throwing in a slice of bacon, a Hindu can defile a whole mosque; but a Moslem eats and sacrifices cows, which are sacred to Hindus. Hinduism is passive ; Mohammedanism is proselytizing - which perhaps accounts for the fact that in most Moslem-Hindu clashes, Moslems usually seem...
Socially, Indian Moslems are a solid, self-conscious minority group (just less than one-fourth of India's population) ; Hindus are a loosely-bound, sect-split, caste-stratified majority (three-fourths...
...One of the main reasons for this difference is that usury, which accounts for far more profit in India than trade, is forbidden to Moslems by religious...