Word: racialization
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Since it joined the U.N., South Africa has persistently invoked this Charter article to resist U.N. inquiries into the question of racial discrimination in the South African Union. Long before its present intolerant leadership got control of the country, Field Marshal Jan Smuts contended in 1946 that "the question of the U.N.'s right to intervene in the domestic affairs of a member state is vital to the whole concept...
Last week South Africa fought a bitter and unsuccessful campaign against renewing the mandate of a three-man U.N. commission which has been investigating apartheid (racial segregation). When the U.N.'s Political Committee voted, 37 to 7 (with 13 abstentions), to prolong the commission's life, South Africa's U.N. Delegate W. C. du Plessis abruptly left the building and began a boycott which, he said, will last at least as long as the present U.N. session...
...dropped cheesecake and gossip for more serious reporting of Negroes in the news, and won back his readers. Johnson learned the hard way that the new-style Ebony is more in tune with its readers' interests. Says he: "The Negro press has depended too much on emotion and racial pride. Negroes have grown out of that...
...bright prospects are not reflected by the Negro press as a whole. Most other Negro editors have been slow to learn that in an era of rapid progress toward full social, economic and political citizenship, the Negro is fast losing his interest in editorial policies largely based on racial protest and sensational handling of news. Moreover, the white press is doing a more thorough job of covering Negro news, e.g., the Washington Post and Times Herald and the New York Herald Tribune have even carried stories about Negro activities on their society pages. As a result, most Negro publications...
...prospered by consistently giving its 17,000 weekday readers full, even-tempered news coverage. This year it has a 45% advertising gain over 1954. Says the World's Managing Editor William Gordon, 36, a 1952 Harvard Nieman fellow: "We aren't in business just to fight for racial equality. The Negro today wants to be well and accurately informed. With desegregation. I can see no decline in the need for a Negro press...