Word: rajahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your Aug. 25 article, "How Not to Make Friends," I couldn't help but wish you had published the names of the drugstores and restaurants which refused service to S. Thava Rajah, so that the decent-minded people of Washington, D.C. would know better than to patronize such . . . places...
...inimitable way, Washington, D.C. immediately went about defeating this aim. With an Egyptian exchange student, Rajah went to a drugstore in the Longfellow Building, the same building that houses State's Office of International Information, which sponsored Rajah's visit. He and his friend wanted ice-cream sodas. They waited, signaled to waitresses and tapped the counter, but "were ignored for half an hour. They left without being served...
...Next day Rajah and another exchange student, a German, went sightseeing, then stopped at another drugstore. After they had sat at a table a few minutes, a waitress came up and said: "We don't serve colored people here." Despite Rajah's explanation that he was a foreigner and a guest of the U.S. Government, he and his companion were refused service...
...days later, Rajah, a Burmese judge and a Malayan university lecturer went to a restaurant for an after-theater snack. Said a waitress: "We don't serve black people in here." Said the manager: "It's the law." But when the three visitors tried to find out about the law, they got nowhere, because there is no such...
After these incidents, Malayan Rajah last week was not necessarily unfriendly, but he was vastly puzzled. Said he: "After all, isn't white a color? I am terribly surprised by all this. You people talk democracy, and you must be careful to practice what you preach...