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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Celilos took a suspicious view of the white man's benevolence. Rheumatic, 86-year-old Chief Tommy Thompson protested that it would be bad medicine to move; others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: No More Rain-in-the-Face | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Government persisted. Last week, after a look at the first few houses in the project, the Celilos decided that the move might not be such a bad idea after all. Admitted Chief Thompson, who had already spent a night in his: "It didn't rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: No More Rain-in-the-Face | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...lost in the strident Afrikaans outburst was the calmer voice of former Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, who pleaded: "Let this monument of our genesis be ... a symbol not only of the past but of our reconciliation . . ." Judge Newton Thompson bluntly spoke for South Africans of British descent: "If you want our country to flourish and be happy, then you must take us with you, not as your subordinates . . . but as your equals at your side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: On Dingaan's Day | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. By Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 28, daughter of Heiress (copper) Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, stepdaughter of Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.: Alexander Hohenlohe, 31, prince and war refugee, who fled Poland with the Biddles in 1939, attempted suicide last September after his separation from Peggy; after ten years of marriage, two children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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