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...Ubico grows richer, he grows more solicitous for property rights. His latest legal masterpiece (Decree #2795, April 22, 1944) "exempts landowners or their representatives from criminal responsibility for acts they commit against trespassers caught gathering game, fruit or firewood. . . ." In practice, a landowner may kill a hungry Indian caught plucking berries; he may kill a refractory laborer, no questions asked...
...years has deprived the Negro of his right to vote in Atlanta while seeking his vote . . . in Harlem." But they have made economic gains under the New Deal; "they will not leave that party for vague assurances of future action expressed in pious platitudes. The Republican Party . . . should commit itself unequivocally and specifically to federal anti-poll tax and anti-lynching statutes...
...London. He gave De Gaulle and the French Empire much credit for tangible contributions to Allied victory, said that these services entitled the De Gaulle Government to "the fourth place in the Grand Alliance" against Hitler. And the Prime Minister painstakingly explained the reservations: "We do not wish to commit ourselves . . . without more knowledge than we now possess of the situation in the interior of France...
...unanswerable Black Record, are at one with the viler elements of our own Anglo-Saxon ruling classes, in wanting him to come to an end, before the liberating resentment and enlightenment, that follow the stresses of every great war, lead to actual world revolution. . . . He will never commit suicide-he hasn't the guts and our proper treatment of him, if we can catch him in time, is to certify him and put him away in a not too luxurious asylum for criminal lunatics. And forget about...
...Peaceful People. In the 17th Century, Spanish friars and soldiers failed to convert the Lacandones, who still worship Mayan gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged...