By Hugh Tinker
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When ships carrying Indian troops docked at South African ports, the Indian officers stayed on board; to disembark was to invite exclusion from hotels and clubs.
Not until the Supreme Court's decision in 1954 in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, which reversed the decisions of its predecessors, did Washington attempt to moderate the southern whites' assertion of supremacy over their black empire. , also imposed a total system of control upon all the non-Russian peoples. Those who may be described as 'ethnic' Russians form over half the total population (58 per cent in 1939; 54 per cent in 1949 after the annexation of the Baltic states and parts of Poland, Finland and Romania).
Confronting these confident creeds of paternalistic Western control there was the anti-colonial political philosophy of the United States. It was true that the United States had annexed islands in the Pacific, such as Hawai and Samoa, and had taken possession of the remnant of the great Spanish Empire of former days - Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. Cuba was not formally annexed, but the island was virtually an American protectorate, with a massive military and naval base of Guantanamo Bay (which is still [1976] retained, despite Fidel Castro).