Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yeller Feller. By 1904, when Government Clerks Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth arrived in Port Zodiac (Darwin), the town was a thronging spectrum of racial color. "Going combo" (mixing with the native women) was officially taboo but an enthusiastic reality in a country short on white women and addicted to "black velvet." Soon half-castes outnumbered whites three-to-one. Unrecognized by their white fathers (who felt vaguely double-crossed), they were tolerated as mongrels by the blacks...
Sheean found Singapore "a mass of contradictions." He heard some Australian troops singing Sweet Adeline loudly and off key, and thought that their "raucous dissent with their surroundings" was "pure essence of Singapore-jazz dancing on the edge of the jungle, unthinking but offensive racial pride, a general clash of unrelated forces and a great unawareness of destiny." There was greater awareness at Mandalay, where the Flying Tigers' Colonel Claire Chennault first told Sheean about a new Japanese plane, the Zero. Chennault had reconstructed a fallen Zero, had great respect...
...like the efforts of certain nebulous-minded New Dealers to force racial equality upon us in the South, but at least they are using only propaganda and not pistols...
...Union of South Africa, home of 2.000,000 dominant whites, 7,000,000 blacks and 250,000 Indians, grappled last week with an ugly racial problem. In Durban, chief port and swank resort of Natal Province, prosperous Indian merchants and farmers (mostly descendants of laborers imported in the 19th Century) had bought $3,000,000 worth of property in the past two and a half years, had moved into new homes in the city's toniest suburbs...
...Weller's own conclusions are based essentially on the idea of eternal racial antagonism. Japan, he insists, is "America's enemy for all time." Japan will never forgive defeat, and there will never be a "common ground of ethical beliefs" for the two countries. Consequently, America must take under her "full and unequivocal" administration such bases as Singapore, New Caledonia, Cam Ranh Bay, Penang. A "tradition of [American] political activity" must be created south of the Chinese coast ports...