Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel that Mr. L. Magruder Passano's statement in Monday's Crimson on the Ehrlich-Alter executions was an unfair one, particularly because the Soviet military court which tried the two men cannot, for obvious reasons, release details of the trial. However, a few general facts are known, facts which the Polish embassy in Washington has vigorously attempted to suppress. If ninety per cent of Harvard's undergraduates are uninformed on this incident, Mr. Passano should have undertaken to explain to them these facts...
Although Ehrlich and Alter were Jews and Socialists, they were openly associated with the anti-Semitic, semi-fascist Polish government of Josef Beck. Escaping into Soviet Russia after the German seizure of western Poland, they undertook to supply to the Polish government-in-exile military information on the U. S. S. R. They were arrested in August, 1941, and convicted on these charges. However, under the terms of a friendship pact signed between Russia and Poland, they were released. Provided with Red Cross funds, the two organized a Polish relief committee. Using this project as a front, they began distributing...
...more than forty per cent of Harvard undergraduate have not heard of Churchill's "Empire Speech," probably less than ten per cent have heard of Victor Alter and Henrich Erlich. Yet the execution of these two Polish Jewish labor leaders by the Russian government is perhaps more important than any other event this year. That the Russian government, our allies, have found it impossible to forget the age-old Socialist-Communist enmity, even in the face of fascism that both are fighting, is a significant and provocative lesson...
...would be a great mistake to become violently anti-Russian because of the Erlich-Alter murders, but it would be just as had to ignore them entirely. Russia is our ally, doing many times her share of the fighting. But we are not only fighting against fascism, we are also fighting this war for the four freedoms, and we did not put our ideals to one side when Stalin became our partner. Liberals should realize both the merits and demerits of the Soviet, for if we keep our eyes open, and do not become blind to here faults when...
German bourgeoisie," written when Mann was 25. The second great task came 25 years later in The Magic Mountain, a study of "a friendly alter ego" in the midst of "European intellectual controversies." The third great task came in his middle 50s, when Mann found in the story of Joseph a theme embracing "the typical, the eternally human, eternally recurring, timeless-in short, the mythical...