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...sixth-to ninth-generation Anglo-Saxons in the South, feel that we belong to the real persecuted minority in the country today, i.e., the descendants of the original colonists...
...opposite pole is Nigel Dennis' fantasy, Cards of Identity. Dennis' first book, A Sea Change, won him the Anglo-American Novel Award in 1949. Dennis, who lives in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, has been a contributing editor of TIME since 1942, specializing in reviewing books. Now that he has written another one of his own, he seems to be creating a sensation among his fellow critics. Said the New York Times: "Cards of Identity may be remembered and read for some time to come." The London Sunday Times called it "one of the three or four most mercurially alert...
Sumner was snake-infested swamp until it was cleared for cotton in 1873. Like many another U.S. town, it was built around a courthouse, and its pioneers brought into the wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...
...began with some inept diplomacy in London. The British, having turned Cyprus into their Middle East military-command post, decided the time had come to do something about Greece's demand for enosis (union) with Cyprus and its dominantly Greek (80%) population. Instead of seeking a direct Anglo-Greek settlement, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan polished up an old British plan for limited home rule, already rejected by the Greek Cypriots, and made the mistake of inviting the Turks to join him and the Greeks in London. In his first few months in office, Macmillan had disappointed many...
Marshall knows that he and the South ern federal judges he respects are checked by the same steely framework of the Anglo-American legal tradition and, especially, the U.S. Constitution. He says: "The difference between the Constitution and the law is something a lot of people don't seem to appreciate. The law can fluctuate because of the changing whims of the people and their legislators. But the whole purpose of the Constitution is to serve as an instrument which cannot be changed overnight, which does not change when mores and customs change...