Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William H. Seward minted a round, shiny phrase. He described the difference between Northern wage labor and Southern slave labor as an "irrepressible conflict." Later, Seward's friends explained that he had not meant that war was inevitable, much" less that it was desirable. Abraham Lincoln profoundly believed that war was undesirable, and hoped that it was avoidable, when he came into the Presidency and put Seward in his Cabinet. But Seward's phrase had caught on. Hotheads on both sides used it. By the time the shooting started, civil war was indeed "irrepressible...
There was also one ominous note. In the Rue d'Aboukir, the heart of Paris' Jewish business district, knots of former slave laborers from Germany raised the ugly Nazi cry: "A bas les Juifs!"-Down with the Jews...
...wherever he had travelled, death followed him like a shadow-and the shadow fell on many, at Maidanek. Oswiecim, Buchenwald. "You find people there," he once said of his concentration camps, "with hydrocephalus, cross-eyed and deformed ones . . . a lot of cheap trash . . . the prisoners are made up of slave souls...
Cecylia Mikolajczyk, 42, wife of the former premier of the London Polish Government, rejoined her husband in London after nearly three years in Nazi prison camps. Tattooed on her left arm, for permanent remembrance, is her slave number...
Typhus raged last winter in southeastern Europe. According to unofficial reports, there were 30,000 cases in Moldavia (Rumania) alone. Germany, which never used to have typhus, had 5,000 cases among slave laborers in 1943. But only two cases have appeared in France and Belgium. The Russians, who died of it by thousands in World War I, have reported little typhus in World...