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After a three-hour parley in historic Chateau Frontenac, Prime Ministers Churchill and King drove to the moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...
...Pacelli did not neglect Vatican City. About the time that Pius XI appointed Pacelli Prefect of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's (guardian of Vatican buildings), Mussolini banned the Catholic Boy Scouts and started to wipe out Catholic Action in Italy. The Pope wrote an encyclical (Non abbiamo bisogno) attacking the Fascist action, but since the Fascists controlled all the telegraph lines and cables to the outside world, Mussolini was in a position to read and reply to the encyclical before the world read...
...last week, galloped right out of the New York Times paddock. Three months ago Fraser was a temporary Times expert on history teaching. Together they steamed up a busy U.S. by charges that high-school graduates know little or no U.S. history (TIME, April 12). Fraser charged that schools neglect the subject. Last week it was clear the Times and Fraser were of two minds...
Fraser made instant reply, charged that the survey was a farce designed to divert attention from shocking neglect of U.S. history in public schools...
...This neglect, with its harmful effects upon both American character and prestige, is the theme of Brothers Under the Skin. Author Carey McWilliams is a former California Commissioner of Immigration & Housing. His description of the U.S. treatment of minorities is blunt; so are his suggested solutions. His ideas stem from years of preoccupation with the history of minority peoples, professional familiarity with Negro homes and segregated quarters, and a long career of opposition to those who see colored poverty and degradation as inevitable. McWilliams' earlier books on labor and agriculture (Ill Fares the Land, Factories in the Field) brought...