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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meets an unhappy woman whose husband bought her "freedom" from serfdom - but also tore her away from her lover, who remains a slave. At the house of a neighbor he watches the owner mercilessly bleed his peasants while affecting the most cultivated French manners. And another time a landowner tells him: "As I see it, the master is the master, and the peasant is the peasant... and that's all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through Gentle Eyes | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...swore that he had never seen him before. The police took both men to a station house, jotted down their stories and sent them home. There were no facts to be examined, no witnesses to be questioned. No U.S. court had jurisdiction over a crime committed by a German slave in a Nazi concentration camp. Though the men in the long beards and skullcaps argued in the streets for hours, there seemed no sure way of deciding whether it was a case of mistaken identity or of a murderer beyond the reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: A Man with a Narrow Face | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Born in northern Mississippi, the eighth of "just eleven children" of ex-slave parents, Alexander Shaw started out to be a public-school teacher, but finally followed his father and an elder brother into the ministry. At one of his first assignments, in Winchester, Va., Dr. Shaw found the second-floor ceiling of his parsonage too low for him. When he solved the problem by persuading his congregation to rent him another house while leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New York delightedly picked up the story and caused him "a good deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Take On Responsibilities | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...from which he can never escape. After Fort abandons "Relief," his former cronies publicly denounce him as Rachel's seducer. The dirt becomes even thicker when Jeremiah mysteriously receives a circular signed by Fort in which Rachel is charged with having given herself to a Negro slave. For Jeremiah, pressed by the inhuman necessities of politics and the all-too-human taunts of his wife, there is no longer a choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web of Politics | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently too discursive, makes engrossing reading whenever he gets out of the way and lets the court record speak for itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hidden World | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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