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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority rule. If the majority of the people of a state want segregated schools, they should have them. The minority have the right to demand equal facilities, and a state which fails to provide them should be penalized. But to integrate the schools against the will of the vast majority is a crime against democracy. Such action will only harm the public schools of the South. TERRELL W. ECKER Laredo, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Above and beyond that, Pineau said France has vast and beneficent plans not only for Algeria but for all its African territories. Said he: "On the day when the [European] Common Market . . . has been created, [France] would like to promote the formation of a Eurafrican whole. Europe in. its entirety, bringing to Africa its capital and its techniques, should enable the immense African continent to become an essential factor in world politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Foursquare for France | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Except during the Depression years, actual migration from Britain has always been high (an average 150,000 a year), but the vast majority of those who now say they want to go will never leave. They will go on, as now, behaving on the job as if "there's no future in it"; they have given up hope of making for themselves in Britain the kind of life they want. In short, the main limiting factor on opportunity in Britain's welfare state is that so many of its people believe there is no real opportunity. The debilitating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Psychological Emigrant | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...grata. The practice has spread to Holland, Denmark and Sweden, which have recently demanded the withdrawal of suspected Soviet embassy spies. Last month the FBI, arresting Jacob Albam and Myra and Jack Soble on charges of being Soviet agents (TIME, Feb. 4), hinted that it had evidence of a vast spy network "involving Soviet officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wolves | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...following among U.S. females, as the first mail deliveries to the Saturday Review quickly proved. "How could any one individual be so cruel?" cried one writer. "I have never seen such cruel, carping criticism of even the trashiest book!" exclaimed another. The Review received a cascade of letters, the vast majority attacking Ciardi's review. Most were from women, and they assailed Ciardi's blunt rancor more than his assessment. There were, however, rumbles from men readers as well. Historian Geoffrey Bruun solemnly declared: "Ciardi exceeded his privileges as a poetry editor to insult a sincere and sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Critic Under Fire | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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