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...wizened and cross-eyed tribal witch doctor named Parserion arap Manyei, this official encouragement seemed a fine opportunity to settle some old scores. Twice exiled for anti-British activity, Manyei had hated the whites ever since his father was killed in the uprising at the turn of the century. Watching his fellow tribesmen turn out new arrows in the Mau Mau emergency, he envisioned a new and bloodier revolt with himself as the chief merchant of death, arid urged his tribal brothers on with their work...
...tribal family had pitched its camp for a week or a day or a season, and the dark and hostile world beyond. In the tribal organization, a man's security lay in his tribal brothers, his wealth in his cattle and women, and his faith in the witch doctor whose juju alone could ward off the infinite peril that beset him on every side. Preoccupied always with the cruel day-to-day realities of getting enough to eat himself and keeping himself from being eaten, the Middle African man-in-the-bush was for the most part unaware...
Others turned Norman's suicide into an anti-U.S. romp. Tory Leader John Diefenbaker attributed Norman's death to "witch-hunting proclivities of certain congressional inquisitors," and the CCF's Alistair Stewart cried that Norman had been "murdered by slander." Editorials in general were bitter...
...Court last fall (TIME, Oct. 8) and now up for Senate confirmation. "Do you approve of congressional investigations and exposure of the Communist conspiracy setup?" asked Joe. Replied Brennan (who, while a justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court, had incurred Joe's hostility by referring to "Salem witch hunts" in public speeches): "Not only do I approve, Senator, but personally I cannot think of a more important or vital objective of its committee investigations than that of rooting out subversives in government...
...Michener himself appears amazed by the enormity of it, and to vouch for his accuracy he finds it necessary to declare solemnly that he has never fallen for phony horror stories-or for Red-baiting. To buttress the point, he cites his distaste for Wood-row Wilson's witch-hunting Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who comes into the book as a stray ghost from a poignantly innocent past. The U.S. has lost its innocence about Communism, but still, Michener asks himself whether his story will be believed in all its details by a prosperous and relatively carefree nation...