Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christianity's foreign missions today face the "greatest crisis of [their] history," according to Dean Listen, Pope of Yale Divinity School in the current Christianity and Crisis. The main trouble is neither lack of funds nor manpower, but the "political, economic and racial revolutions in many parts of the world...
...their heritage. It was the "sacred trust" of a mandatory power to prepare native peoples for self-government. Instead, the Union of South Africa was preparing to annex South West Africa and force its black men (300,000 v. 30,000 whites) into a degrading system of racial discrimination (TIME...
...plea for basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...
...suggested that formation of small inter-racial discussion groups at the College as a way to foster religious understanding, and felt that faculty members would be glad to help such groups...
Last week, in a location at Krugersdorp, a mining town 20 miles from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...