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...center of the verbal whirlwind, Canada's second-class citizens (most of the Japs, like the Canadian Chinese and Hindus in British Columbia, cannot vote) watched in bewilderment man's inhumanity to man. Said Tokyo Morikawa, 30, Canadian-born: "The law regards you as a Canadian but you are treated as an alien...
Ebony, which imitates LIFE'S format, has an adless first printing of 50,000 copies. On its editor's theory that "most white magazines deal with Negroes as second-class citizens or freaks," Ebony wants to show how normal they are. Most of its heroes live in a happy world of ready cash: Eddie Anderson, whose subservient role as Jack Benny's valet RoChester is anathema to most of the Negro press, is to Ebony just a big success who has a home "like the Taj Mahals of other movie stars...
...Second-Class Powers, Unite. In Stockholm a few days later he was more explicit. Said the Professor, in a casual appraisal of Britain's new world position calculated to drive Winston Churchill into his grave: "Not even America and Russia can live alone. Still less can second-class powers like Britain and Sweden. Why cannot the Foreign Ministers in the socialist Swedish and British Governments-and soon in the Norwegian and Danish-meet and draw up a program together?" By that time Danish Foreign Minister John Christmas Moeller and Norwegian Foreign Minister Trygve Lie were already in London, talking...
Descendants of the ancient Ainus,* now mixed with Japanese, Chinese and Polynesian strains, the 600,000 people of the Ryukyu Islands had been treated as second-class citizens by the Japanese, and have little reason to love their rulers. But they have also been taught that Americans were barbarians who would violate and torture their women, torture and kill their men. And then the Americans came...
...McKinnon neatly got around the newsprint shortage. When the WPB refused to let him transfer his job-printing quota to a newspaper allocation, he put together his authorizations for job work, circulars and the Progress-Journal, kept out of WPB's newspaper limitation jurisdiction by not applying for second-class mailing rights...