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...Author Murray, Malanism is not a problem of politics or Anglo-Dutch disharmony; it is just one of the symptoms of a chronic disease which she calls "the African sickness"-a complicated ailment that has become so "normal" in South Africa that those who suffer from it are usually the last to know...
...wrote in the friendliest of terms to Old Friend Churchill, explaining that he was resorting to a person-to-person message precisely because he did not want the U.S.-British policy differences to blow up a full-size storm to damage Anglo-American relations...
Three of Bhowani Junction'?, main characters take turns at telling the story, which hangs on the problems of a group Americans know little about. In India, there are many names for them-Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, half-castes, chee-chees, blacky-whites, eight-annas.* Victoria Jones, an eight-anna girl, is "the color of dark ivory." She is a lush beauty with come-hither eyes and a figure that would make an hourglass seem angular. But in 1946. with the British on their way out of India, Victoria's problem is acute. ("We couldn't become English, because...
...ditches a well-intentioned but bum bling Anglo-Indian, because he has "ten thumbs and a soul like a boiled...
...Rifles, who is as effective as Tom Swift in dealing with men and more effective in dealing with women. In his arms Victoria finds "peace" and "ecstasy." But since the colonel is an Englishman, that is not enough. At novel's end, Victoria goes back to her bumbling Anglo-Indian and her own people at Bhowani Junction, where "the lines spread out to every Indian horizon for them...