Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Bishop likes his history translated into living beings and moving forces, an objective TIME has always had. His attitude is accepted readily by his students, one of whom remarked about the recent map of Russian slave labor camps: "There's nothing especially new about that for the Russians, is there? Couldn't the map have stood for the banishment camps and Siberian prisons the Czars kept for the disposal of their political opponents? The Bolshies are doing what Russians in power have been doing for generations...
...Southeast Asia where a power vacuum exists [e.g., Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China] ... We must make . . . one single treaty-all for one and one for all ... With such a program ... we would have actually more human beings [850 million] on our side . . . than there are in all the miserable slave states under Communist control. . . Such tremendous might on the side of freedom . . . would be more than any tyrant would dare attack. It would be the greatest alliance in history for peace...
South African Author Oliver Walker, commenting on the South African Negroes' many fine qualities, has added that the whites "will make of them a hard, cruel people in the end." This is happening now. deq was a slave to his own rash measures and a prisoner of Iranian extremists...
...regime. British papers found his bulletins so reliable that the Manchester Guardian quoted them in one of its famed "leaders," the Times used them as tips for its own correspondents, and the Daily Telegraph began front-paging Josten "beats" with full credit (e.g., news of the Russian's slave-labor Czech uranium mine...
...ante-bellum Natchez there was a law against selling liquor to Negroes, but in spite of it the slave Steven was always getting drunk. When he drank, he tried to escape. When he was caught, he was flogged. On Aug. 10, 1840, his master's diary shows that he was beaten twice: "After he had been Brot home, [I] Hand Cuffed him and Floged Him. In the first place I Knocked him Down at the Building-he then ran away, but was soon Brought Back again . . . I gave Him Late in the afternoon a tolerable severe whiping." Master William...