Word: racialization
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...methods should go far toward bringing order out of the chaos in Malaya's jungles. Some Britons, questioning Templer's appointment, last week wondered whether his methods would be as effective in soothing Malaya's populace, which, like all Eastern peoples, bristles with nationalistic pride and racial jealousies. Chief problem: winning over the 2,000,000 Chinese in Malaya, who control much of the colony's business but are denied political equality. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, recently returned from Malaya, says: "You cannot expect to overcome the emergency without the help of the civilian population...
...Soviet theory that environment shapes most human qualities and the Nazi theory of inherited racial supremacy both "appear to be nonsense," according to a scientist who has produced cleft palate, misshapen brains and many other deformities in mice...
...Bishops have grown away from the dogma," he wrote on October 28, 1951. "Emphasis has been put for so long on sociology, inter-racial justice, expediency, politics, and never on doctrine. Our bishops and priests are afraid--afraid that preaching the whole truth, even if they know it, would make them unpopular with the Protestants and the Jews, would bring on persecution, and they would have to give up worldly goods, prestige, popularity, and whatever degree of security they think they have...
TIME'S Nov. 12 piece on the Winchell-Baker-Stork-Club fiasco rates three loud cheers. Your treatment of racial-prejudice incidents has always been excellent. Also nice blow for the misused word "discrimination." It used to be a handy one. And may Sugar Ray Robinson's "Daddy-O, ungather my dry goods, or I'll have to let you have it," be remembered favorably with Joe Jacobs' candid "I shoulda stood...
...president's feud with the college fraternities began four years ago when he handed them a three-point ultimatum. At that time he ordered them to take in a greater percentage of the total student body, abolish all racial and religious discriminatory clauses from their charters, and raise their scholastic averages...