Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since Italy passed its racial laws in 1938, some 4,500 of its 57,000 Jews have become Christians "due to a desire to place children in Catholic schools and circumvent the economic restrictions imposed on Jews . . . also [in] the hope of emigration to Latin America, where many countries admit proselytes while barring Jews...
...Canada needed most last week was Ernest Lapointe. For two decades Ernest Lapointe had manipulated the strings that pull the geographical subdivisions, the racial and religious antagonisms of Canada into one nation. Last week the issue of conscription for overseas service threatened to snarl the strings as badly as it did in World War I. But the great manipulator's fingers were limp...
...pronounced the Italians "Mediterranean Nordics." The Englishman was "at once arrogant, rude and brave when he raises his hand and establishes an empire-a creative nation of masters! . . . The United States have the great task, after throwing overboard the rotten ideas upon which they were founded, of creating a racial state...
...tenth of our population which is colored has not taken all this governmental, military, naval, union, and private business discrimination lying down. So strong was feeling that last June President Roosevelt had to issue a prettily worded but ineffective executive order against racial discrimination in defense industries to forestall a well-planned "March to Washington of 100,000 Negroes." Hillman has had to ask large employers to stop importing labor and raiding neighboring firms after summarily rejecting Negro employment applications. No governmental official, however, has been sufficiently tough with the proto-fascist overlords, in and out of uniform, who persist...
...every one of these communities, as well as in every draft camp, Americans are coming face to face with the problems of discrimination which have too long blemished our national scene. This time these problems can not be dodged. Out of the racial and class melting pot of the army camps can come a new understanding which will spread over the nation. --From the Vassar Miscellany News...