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Handy Pretext. A flush of horror and foreboding spread across Israel. The bombing was the most serious anti-Communist incident since Moscow came out in the open with its anti-Jewish campaign (others: the firing of a Soviet bookshop in Jerusalem; a hand-grenade explosion at the Czech legation). This is as bad as the assassination of Count Bernadotte," said a civil servant. Will our people never learn?" Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett rushed a fervent apology to Moscow. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion cut short a vacation to lay the matter before the Knesset. "An abomination was committed by hooligans...
...Dunster House Bookshop case of 1930, for example, an agent of the Watch and Ward Society, posing as a customer, ordered and paid for a copy of the proscribed Lady Chatterly's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence. The proprietor was subsequently arrested and fined in a Cambridge District court; a higher court later refused to review the case, stating it was obvious the proprietor knew he was purveying "obscene" literature...
Essential to such a system of censorship is a feeling of cooperation. Most booksellers, according to Thomas M. Moroney, manager of the Old Corner Bookshop in Boston, are "...not interested in making cases out of these books. I'll admit frankly that I and my publishers are interested chiefly in making money. We don't want to get wound up in these things...
...least one bookshop in the Square may be acting as a fence for students and professional thieves, three bookstore managers said yesterday. All three report monthly losses from thieving which amount to hundreds of dollars...
...wife has retreated into a cocoon of neuroses. His brother-in-law is a shiftless drunk who pretends he can write, and his journalist daughter is a loveless prig. Sands's first homosexual buddy, a stage designer, has left him for a theatrical producer. His second, a young bookshop manager, is in the clutch of a possessive mother. Bernard Sands feels superior to the shoddy lot until he sees a fellow homosexual dragged away by the police-and suddenly feels ready to side with the law and "join the hounds in the kill...