Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are as many Indians (200,000) in the South African province of Natal as in the Indian city of Benares. Some 35 years ago Mohandas K. Gandhi, then a fully clothed Natal attorney (see cut), first used passive resistance in defending the Natal Indians against repressive race legislation...
Explaining that he had merely wanted "to point a moral," Vicar Green added: "These Nazis, who have been guilty of every kind of villainy, should not be pampered. I repeatedly pray 'God save us from ourselves.' We must be the chosen race or we could never perpetrate the idiocies we do and survive...
...Master Race (RKO-Radio), one of the war's well-timed pictures, dramatizes some of the problems which face the Allies-and the natives-in a shattered town in Belgium, newly liberated from the Nazis. An American officer (Stanley Ridges) is in charge of reconstruction an English officer (Gavin Muir) holds services in the broken church; a Russian military doctor (Carl Esmond) uses his political sophistication to scent out local disaffection at its sources...
...shade too diagrammatic in its characters and plot and, like many otherwise laudable stories about democracy, a shade too sanctimonious, The Master Race is nonetheless an unusually pointed, serious, well-made picture. When the cornered villain jeers at his enemies, "You fall out among yourselves. . . . Victory is a nightmare to you. . . ," the screen play makes articulate a fierce and needed admonition to all men of good intention. When Miss Gates, cajoled in a sinister way by Mr. Coulouris, nervously binds and unbinds the hair ribbon of her precarious girlishness and stares with swelling excitement into her mirrored face, she makes...
Rayford W. Logan, professor of history at Howard University and editor of What the Negro Wants, believes that in the midst of World War II "race relations are more strained than they have been in . . . years." He has chosen 14 leading Negroes-ranging from poet to trade-unionist, conservative to Communist-to state the Negro case. The result is a series of balanced, thoughtful articles on one of the most serious postwar U.S. problems, mostly well-written, mainly free from political rhetoric...