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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Randolph demanded abolition of all racial discrimination in the armed services and under U.M.T. He minced no words: "To the rank-&-file Negro in World War II, Hitler's racism posed a sufficient threat for him to submit to the Jim Crow Army abuses. But this factor ... is not present in the power struggle between Stalin and the U.S. . . . Since we cannot obtain an adequate congressional forum for our grievances, we have no other recourse...
...work at Bogota, there will be top-flight statesmen on the job. Crisis-harried George Marshall will head the U.S. delegation, with Cabinet-rank support from Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Export-Import Bank Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. will be there, and John J. McCloy, World Bank president, though not a delegate, plans to be on hand. The diplomatic backfield will be sparked by Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Norman Armour...
With the decline in tutorial, Lowell's reputation for housing students who consistently get "A's" comes only because Master Elliott Perkins '23, lecturer in History, picks high rank men for the House...
...Jassy (Rank; Universal-International). Handsome, hard-working Margaret Lockwood as a gypsy who marries a man she loathes for the sake of a man she loves. Never mind hurrying to the movie just to find out why: it merely proves that the British can make bad ones...
Cornered Children. The second book, Silent Children, is a novel by China's Mai Mai Sze (pronounced roughly may may she), daughter of a former Chinese Ambassador to Washington. It cannot claim to rank with Innocents. But its strength lies in its dramatic presentation of an appalling contemporary problem-the "dispossessed children" of World War II. While Author Barker's juveniles lose their innocence in relatively peaceful country areas of wartime England, Author Sze's homeless ragamuffins live in a camp on the mud flats of an Eastern river, and make sorties into a nearby city...