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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are among the most destitute and underprivileged of U.S. minorities. They have no vote. About two-thirds know no English (there are schools for only 7,000 of their 24,000 children). The Navajos' tuberculosis rate is 14 times that of the U.S. as a whole, but there are only 182 hospital beds for their t.b. patients (TIME, Sept. 8). There are too few doctors, only two dentists, only two field nurses on the reservation...
...this meant nothing if Congress did not vote the money. And the Navajos had little faith in high-sounding plans. The Government had welshed on its promises before. Last year, a group of old men had gone to Congress and asked: "What is to be done with the Navajo people?" Congress had replied by doing nothing...
...warmonger?" ended this week at Lake Success. The month's debate was a sea of platitude lashed by the winds of bombast and invective. It resulted in a resolution condemning talk that might disrupt the peace. Everybody could agree to that. In fact, everybody did; the vote...
This unanimous vote followed defeat of the Russian anti-warmongering resolution. Andrei Vishinsky and his Slav-bloc friends started from the premise that private ownership of the means of production leads to war. It followed, in Communist logic, that warmongering could not exist in the U.S.S.R., and must exist in the U.S. The Russian resolution named the U.S., Greece and Turkey as responsible for warmongering. Vishinsky demanded that all U.N. governments punish as criminals any citizens whose words might lead...
...party which had won the biggest vote in last fortnight's municipal elections -Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. - has not a single official representative in the national Assembly, for the simple reason that the last national elections were held before the R.P.F. was mobilized. To what extent, therefore, would De Gaulle view the municipal voting as a mandate? "Faster Than I Thought." Gaullist hot heads urged the dreamy, inscrutable General to seize power at once. But he dislikes coups d'état. His top political adviser, Novelist André Malraux, advised prudence and the General favors prudence...