Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boil. "Those who would introduce bigotry in our organization," cried the Rev. Edward Goodwin, chaplain of the Hawaiian Department, "are bastards of Satan!" But when all the shouting was over, the American Legion voted 1,650 to 1,388 to sustain the 40 & 8 Society in its lily-white stand...
...testing of India's willingness to defend itself. "We must not become alarmist and panicky and take wrong actions," cautioned the ever-cautious and neutralist Nehru, but then he added ringingly that "there is no alternative to us but to defend our borders and our integrity." M.P.s in white homespun thumped their benches in stormy agreement...
...late, however, moderates in both major parties have worried that the doctrinaire Verwoerd might be going too far in his economically unfeasible plan to herd Africans into eight little "Bantustans" (TIME, June 1) ringing a paternalistic, all-white South Africa. But right-wingers in the opposition United Party, out of power since 1948, decided to out-apartheid the Nationalists in the next elections. They rammed through the party's convention at Bloemfontein fortnight ago a resolution against the Bantustan program-on the ground that it would reduce the size of white South Africa. Outraged, eleven liberal members of Parliament...
...coming of the white man brought syphilis and smallpox to the Masai, rinderpest to plague their herds, and ultimately the division of the Masai into two tribes, one of 60,000 in Kenya, the other of 46,000 in Tanganyika. The Kenya Masai, both better protected by the colonial government and better behaved, found a chance to enjoy their former glories during the Mau Mau troubles, when the British put them to work tracking and killing Kikuyu terrorists. But in Tanganyika the Masai, disorganized and disfranchised, have been increasingly at the mercy of settlers encroaching on their grazing lands. Last...
...remarkably ill-tempered reply Sir Richard in effect told the Masai to be satisfied with the white man's edicts, and to accept ?40 ($112) as their cut of the tourist trade. Shocked, most of the assembled Masai withdrew out of hearing until he had finished his harangue, while an amazed British reporter said under his breath: "I thought this sort of thing was finished 25 years...