Word: racialization
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...changed that; there simply were not enough white replacements, and field commanders were forced to fill in with Negroes. Once away from his Jim Crow unit, the Negro was a different soldier. How different became readily apparent in the results of Project Clear, an Army survey of the new racial policy. Items: ¶ On the test of standing up to mass attack, where Negro soldiers had had a reputation for taking to their heels, 85% of the officers interviewed in Korea said that Negroes in mixed units performed "about the same" as whites...
...continuing struggle to breach the Magnolia Curtain of racial discrimination, the Negro scored three breakthroughs, one no-gain last week...
Shawcross emphasizes in his speech that he does not wish to draw parallels with the United States, whose "racial heterogeneity" and geographical situation make the problem of security considerably more complex. Britain has the undoubted security advantage of a closely knit country But besides this, certain safeguards of a customary nature have acted strongly to prevent the development of an inquisitorial type of investigation. There is, for example, the tradition that Parliamentary committees are appointed for only special, necessarily grave investigations. Shawcross believes that the British public would not tolerate an investigating committee with wide powers. Further, there...
...Such racial amiability, rare in the Rhodesias, was an outward and visible sign of the racial partnership that Britain hopes will one day characterize all British Africa. But it could not disguise the inward spiritual conflict that threatens Rhodesia with chronic black-white strife. Lyttelton had come to make his own reading of that conflict. Its heart is the growing fear of a white minority surrounded by black men who no longer are satisfied to be seen and not heard...
...public life, the ambassador found the Indians not quite so ready to take to him. The newly independent Indians were ready to impugn U.S. motives and policies even before Bowles was able to explain them. The worst side of racial discrimination in the U.S. was worked into daily, throbbing headlines by the sensational Indian press and often by the more responsible papers. At every meeting he addressed, Bowles waited for his chance to explain the inevitable question: "What about the discrimination against American Negroes...