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...impossible not to feel some degree of sympathy with a man (however mistaken TIME may believe him to be) who seeks the deliverance of his country from a foreign yoke...
Even Worse Lot. Many of India's 8,000,000 Christians are indeed "poor and backward," i.e., untouchables. These humble folk hoped, by choosing Christianity, to win freedom from the yoke of caste, which confined them to such jobs as cleaning toilets and sweeping up after India's wandering sacred cows. During the days of the British raj, the untouchables were the best prospects of British missionaries. But Gandhi did much for them ("I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived," he said), and now discrimination against an untouchable is punishable by law ($105 fine...
...River. From the moment he boards the 102-ft. cargo junk that is to take him upriver from Ichang, he feels irritably caught in a vise of passivity. Once under way, the American is alternately fascinated and repelled by the work of the "trackers," human beasts of burden whose yoke is a bamboo rope, who haul the junk from precarious footholds, step by straining step. Chief of the trackers is a Chinese John Henry nicknamed Old Pebble. Old Pebble is a kind of mythic Nature Boy who can chant his weary men through a rough gorge or leap into...
...best Arab tradition, Franco led him to a Rolls-Royce, and together, flanked by a squadron of Franco's Moorish guard, they drove into Madrid, while thousands of Spaniards waved handkerchiefs and cried Viva el Sultan! Later at Franco's El Pardo palace, the Order of the Yoke and Arrows (a Falangist creation) was hung around the Sultan's neck. Then the Moroccans got down to business in the Goya room at El Pardo. Recognizing that Spain's 44-year-old Moroccan protectorate (a kind of sublease from French Morocco) no longer "corresponds to present reality...
...protocol, in which the French government officially recognized his nation's independence. But even this triumph was not enough. "It is inconceivable," said Bourguiba, "that Tunisia on one side and Morocco on the other should enjoy independence while Algeria, which lies between them, remains under the colonialist yoke...