... to mid 1940s. During the early and middle 1930s anti-Japanese feeling was not particularly intense in British Columbia. But in the closing months of 1937 a new source of stain bore down upon the west coast's racial cleavage. Japan attacked China once again and, in Canada reports of this aggression provoked the first strong outburst of anti-Japanese feeling in a decade ... scattering acts of vandalism. Fear of Japanese subversion again spread in the province. In Private, British Columbians began protesting to their members of Parliament. The weight of public concern also bore down on pro...

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... of Staff of the US Army General M. Taylor. The atomic bombing of Japanese cities were, in fact, the act of deterrence aimed primarily against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the struggle against fascism: its most economically developed part of the territory was in the zone of military operations, subject to restoration. Even more significant were the ... ...

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... extent, as is in Ceremony, no connection or tie at all. As for the white people, one can only imagine the shame that was brought upon their families as they bore children of "mixed-blood", due to the high levels of discrimination those white families had for these indigenous, savagery inferiors. After the war, in Ceremony, Silko introduced the ... ...

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... . Its stories explored the plight of the working class and the poor. It showed ordinary people and everyday life, with emphasis on the value of these ordinary people. It often bore a preoccupation with Italy's Fascist past and its aftermath. It also had a compassionate point of view and a refusal to make simple moral judgments. The blending of Christian themes and Marxist humanism ... ...

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... . Its stories explored the plight of the working class and the poor. It showed ordinary people and everyday life, with emphasis on the value of these ordinary people. It often bore a preoccupation with Italy's Fascist past and its aftermath. It also had a compassionate point of view and a refusal to make simple moral judgments. The blending of Christian themes and Marxist humanism ... ...

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... should be no discrimination in the employment of workers in the defense industry of government because of race, creed, color or national origin."2 With Executive Order #8802, the federal government bore the responsibility for black and minority rights in employment including the military. However, as in all other previous executive orders for equality, problems tend to follow. The 92nd Infantry (Buffalo ... ...

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... should be no discrimination in the employment of workers in the defense industry of government because of race, creed, color or national origin."2 With Executive Order #8802, the federal government bore the responsibility for black and minority rights in employment including the military. However, as in all other previous executive orders for equality, problems tend to follow. The 92nd Infantry (Buffalo ... ...

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... turned World War II into a "Great Patriotic War" for "Mother Russia," an idea totally antithetical to Marxist ideology. And even after the war, Stalin's expansionist foreign policy and belligerent tactics bore a striking resemblance to the traditional politics of a nationalistic Russia--as did his domestic persecutions of Russia's Jews. In a sense, then, despite Stalin's Marxism, it was nationalism that made the deeper ... ...

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... agricultural system was needed. Despite the fertile land exploitation in the Ukraine, which fed the Soviet Union, there were still regular famines and the peasants who worked on the farms bore a deep resentment to the party, which branded many of them as Kulaks and capitalists. For the five year plans to work, the peasants would be needed as workers and collectivisation ... ...

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... in the war. They all seem very happy and enthusiastic about fighting the First World War; none of them look the least bit worried. I mentioned this Thick Fact because Germany bore a heavy responsibility for the outbreak of hostilities. German leaders deliberately instigated a war they could have prevented had they chosen to restrain their weaker Austrian ally. Instead, after the assassination of ... ...

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