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...awakening Africa, Paul Magloire passionately argues: "Haiti has shown by its struggle for liberty and progress that the black race and small nations can . . . achieve a status equal to that of any other human group. Haiti has given the lie to those who pretend that certain races are unfit for liberty, equality and self-government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Bon Papa | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Telephones jangled all over Washington within a few hours after the Post last week headlined on Page One: A-SUBMARINES HELD UNFIT FOR BATTLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Full Speed Astern | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Unfit for Service...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: White Case in Perspective: Politics and Laxity | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

...White on Feb. 6, 1946, after the Senate had confirmed his new appointment. On receiving the dossier, he reportedly conferred with State Secretary James Byrnes and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson. Vinson then went into a huddle with Hoover and Attorney General Tom Clark. All three agreed White was "unfit for service...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: White Case in Perspective: Politics and Laxity | 12/11/1953 | See Source »

...Church of England's "bold, bad bishop" of Birmingham (until his retirement last May), who alarmed and angered his fellow churchmen for 29 years by publicly denouncing the doctrine of the virgin birth and the existence of Adam and Eve, advocating strict birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of "the unfit"; in Hurstpierpoint. England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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