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What was bothering Hassan was the state of the nation, which was dreadful. Business was stagnant. Half the Moroccan work force was underemployed, and one man in ten had no work at all. In the largest city, Casablanca, student mobs last March battled police and soldiers and ran up a...
A case in point: the heroine of Hiroshima, played by Emmanuelle Riva. For her, the bombing of Hiroshima was a dreadful example of man's mistreatment of man. It should be unforgettable to everyone. But unfortunately, owing to the elusive disposition of human memory, it isn't. Her solution at...
And yet growing numbers of whites are no longer afraid to speak out for the Negro and to break what Lillian Smith called the "dreadful silence of the good." Some Negro leaders complain that many of the "new" liberals are superficial and favor the Negro cause only because in certain...
Klanonyms. Klansmen appeared as self-appointed judges, juries and executioners. They resumed the reign of terror against Negroes. They tarred and feathered men and women-white and black-whom they suspected of illicit sexual relations, and lynched, mutilated or lashed hundreds of others. They tortured Jewish shopkeepers, whom they accused...
Under glaring floodlights one chill night last week, three warders of London's Pentonville prison opened the grave of a hanged man. At midnight they reached the quicklimed corpse of Sir Roger Casement,* wrapped it in sacking, and placed it gently in a wooden coffin. Before his 1916 execution...