Word: adolf
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...names, and has not been photographed since the war years. Unable to do him bodily harm, the Communists scream that Gehlen is the high priest of a revived Naziism (he never joined the Nazi Party); the current Red line is that Gehlen is plotting the rescue of Mass Murderer Adolf Eichmann from the Israelis...
...painstaking, Elizabeth Nowell's biography has some deficiencies: she takes Wolfe and his self-appraisals at face value (a risky faith); she gives too much space to business detail of publishing; she is repetitive. But the biography is charged with unforgettable vignettes-Wolfe absorbing the black scowls of Adolf Hitler as he whoops hoarsely for Negro Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; complaining that "I can always find plenty of women to sleep with but the kind of woman that is really hard for me to find is a typist who can read my writing"; stuffing his ears...
...There seems to be doubt in some quarters that Israel may legally try Adolf Eichmann. In this connection I quote an old statement on the law of piracy: "Piracy has always been regarded as a crime against all humanity; therefore, a pirate, wherever his crimes were committed, and against whomever committed, wherever he is captured, and regardless of by whom he is captured, may be tried anywhere and punished anywhere." If this is true of one whose crime consists of the seizure and plunder of a single ship, surely it is true of one who murdered millions of his fellowmen...
...international incidents go, the Adolf Eichmann case was always more sound than fury. Last week, after a short outburst, even the sound subsided into a polite diplomatic murmur...
...hope that all the anti-capital-punishment people who worked so hard for Caryl Chessman won't be too tired to go to bat for Adolf Eichmann. Adolf, like every criminal, was just a creature of circumstance who was pointed irretrievably to his destiny when he was between one and six. Killing him won't bring back all those people. MURRAY UBERMAN Brooklyn...