Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began soon after Prime Minister Strydom, who is determined that nothing shall stand in the way of all-Boer rule of South Africa, rammed through his law breaking the Senate's power to obstruct him. Every day all day, four black-sashed women stood gravely outside the government buildings in Pretoria. They were members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League. In the two months since, the few have grown to 20,000 members in 200 towns. Whenever a Minister arrived at a public ceremony, 40 or 50 women gathered and formed a silent gauntlet. When...
...reporters he talked almost like a man with something to apologize for. "Take into consideration that the Soviet Union covers one-sixth of the earth's surface . . ." he said. "The conference was overshadowed by the memories of the last war.* It was not like other conferences. Passions, not rule of logic, played the predominant role . . . The hospitality at official functions bore no relation to the atmosphere at negotiations. The hospitality was hearty. The negotiations were mordant . . . We, I believe, did right...
...some judges were fired; others were imprisoned. The press, radio and universities were brought under control. Nasser's young officers went into every department of government. An internal intelligence system was set up. The frantic, dizzying pace of affairs befuddled Prime Minister General Naguib. "I would like to rule the country like Gandhi, without official responsibility," said he worriedly. He was not long for this rough game...
While he expands his personal power, Nasser is coming closer to the day next January when he has promised to transform his military rule into representative government and give Egyptians a parliament. Not even Gamal Nasser himself seems certain that he will keep that promise. "Throughout my life," he confesses, "I have had faith in militarism." The army is the only sector of power he so far has found it possible to trust, and even there he fears that unless he can provide more equipment, morale will fall and officers will weaken to subversion from the Communist left...
Racial discrimination is as reprehensible when practiced by Negroes as it is when employed by whites. And the Golden Rule works both ways. Like many Negroes, Mrs. Anderson, Louis Armstrong and Congressman Diggs owe much of their success to white people. By virtue of their positions they have a moral obligation to society in general...