Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Memphis, Dr. Imes graduated from Union in 1915, served as president of its Alumni Club, holds degrees from Fisk, Columbia and Lincoln Universities. In 17 years at St. James' he has built up a devoted, self-sustaining congregation. He is active in racial affairs, a trustee of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, of the Department of Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches...
...streaking across the chill waters of the St. Lawrence River, for centuries the heartstream of French Quebec. The St. Lawrence sinkings had the effect of dousing cold water on many of the hotheads in Quebec who had not been able to forget old grievances, economic maladjustment and religious and racial issues in the face of common danger. At week's end, a two-week truce was called while Ottawa played host to United Nations airmen planning integration of the air forces of all free peoples. But this did not mean that the internal Canadian crisis was over...
...Occidentals who thought his Oriental formula fibreless, little Mohandas Gandhi last week declared that the U.S. and Britain lack the moral basis for waging war. In an interview with the United Press, he said that they could gain it only by giving all Asiatic peoples political independence and racial equality. The U.S., he said, might have brought about peace but had lost the opportunity; but even now it would be possible for the U.S. to withdraw from the war if she would divest herself of "the intoxication of immense wealth...
Without noticeable enthusiasm, Mackenzie King informed a nervous House of Commons of a new Order Paper. It contained the only answer he could find at present to a racial and religious problem which Canadians of good will had always hoped that time-not civil strife-would solve. The answer: an amendment to the National Resources Mobilization Act which struck out Section 3 and thus empowered the Government to send Canadian conscripts anywhere in the world...
...question now becomes. "What forces are restraining the direct expression of this hostility toward the Axis and diverting it into hostility against the British, against our racial minorities and against our allies?" There are two main explanations: The first force is that during the past twenty years there has been pacifistic philosophy abroad in America which would rule aggression out of human nature, precisely as the Victorians sought to rule...