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...camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa," said La Graviére, "I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have been sent as slaves by African dealers to the Arab states...
...Economic and Social Council committee on forced labor sent out a questionnaire urging all member nations to report on the extent of slavery in their territories. Loftily denying the existence of such a horrid thing, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia never answered the questionnaire. Anti-Slaver La Graviére hopes his own nation will put the problem before the U.N. General Assembly...
...written," now that relativity has set up a definite connection between electricity and gravitation. So said Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker of Edinburg University. He offered some propositions: that if the gravitation of a planet could vary rapidly, an electrified body in the field of attraction would emit radiation; that "gravi-tation simply represents a continued effort of the universe to straighten itself...
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