Word: racialization
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Bigger nations than Switzerland have been consumed by Nazi fury for fewer sins. Switzerland is democratic; she is "polyglot"; her largest racial group is German. Her culture is incurably liberal and her biggest political party is Social Democratic. She is home and symbol of the world's greatest experiments in the internationalism which the Nazis detest: the League of Nations and the Red Cross. Now, with war in the Mediterranean, Switzerland has automatically become guilty of the cardinal sin: being in Hitler...
...week's end Washington authorities had been needled enough. They retorted. Reason for the censorship of some opinion, they said, is that Axis propagandists seize upon reports of Allied dissension, racial or otherwise, and feed them to European and South American peoples in exaggerated shapes. Explained U.S. Censor Byron Price: When foreign correspondents undertake to send abroad editorial comments which tend "to emphasize disunity in this country instead of stating the facts as they are," they must be censored...
...Aims. In the clearest statement of Allied war aims yet made, Stalin said: "The program of action of the Anglo-Soviet-American coalition is: abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations which have suffered, and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, the destruction of the Hitlerite regime...
...ticklish problem of racial discrimination that has been consistently side-stepped during peacetime complacency is now on the fire and is rapidly coming to a boil. The poll tax is on the spot and an even more important question has been raised with the labor unions as a result of the all-out production necessity of hiring more Negroes. In many cases Negroes are not given equal rights in unions that are designed to be the voice of all the workers. Often colored workers are refused membership, a refusal which may later ham-string plants with closed shop agreements...
...labor's next move and whichever way it goes, the decision will be crucial. If national labor leaders force local unions to drop these discriminations because of practical purposes now, a precedent may be established that will be the key to racial equality in the post war world. The situation invites action. The time is now, the place is labor...