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...Ivan Maisky, Russia's Assistant Foreign Minister, on the future of postwar Germany. Maisky insisted upon 1) dismemberment of Germany, 2) dismantling of German industry to 25% of its previous productive capacity, 3) deportation to Russia of 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 German men and women slave laborers for perhaps ten years. "It was the Russians' hope," Harriman concluded dryly,, "that this experience . . . should be handled in such a way as to re-educate the Germans. If they showed signs of becoming more reasonable in their attitude, greater freedom and a fuller life might be provided...
...birds, and is a pompous windbag to boot. It is not the N.A.A.C.P. which we true Southerners, both white and black, have to fear but men like Brady, whose statements make us sound like a bunch of "hold my magnolia, while I beat my slave" fools...
...grow only smaller. Already in London young Churchill, on the threshold of a brilliant parliamentary career, was immersed in discussions about colonialism and "the issue of whether peoples have a right to self-government or only to good government." The Sudan got "good" government. For centuries Arab slave traders from the north had raided the Negro villages of the south, sold their captives on eastern markets. The British put down the slave trade. The dancing Dervishes became respectable Sudanese, and the British educated them...
...NKVD had become such a huge, unwieldy organization that Stalin split it into two parts: the MGB (Security, under Abakumov) and the MVD (Slave Labor, under Kruglov). Having swelled the ranks of slave labor by several millions, Serov was a natural for the MVD. He was made Kruglov's deputy, got a third Order of Lenin for whipping his slaves into completing the Volga-Don canal. But after Stalin's death, his membership in MVD and not in MGB probably saved his life. The Beria liquidation process carried off the entire top level of the security forces...
...those who have not had the opportunity to study American Negro History (and we understand that no such course is taught at Harvard), the following analysis of the origin of the Negro family may prove useful: "The uniqueness of the Negro family is a product of slavery. Most slave owners either did not care about the marital state of their slaves or were interested in seeing to it that they did not form strong marital bonds. The slave owners who did not want some of their slaves to marry were those who had Negro...