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Opponents of the imperial system held at least three peaceful rallies yesterday evening. One group of about 100 marchers in central Tokyo carried a placard likening Hirohito to Adolf Hitler...
...really insensitive or racist to call the 1950s "carefree" times? Compared to the 1940s--which brought us Hitler, the Holocaust and the atomic bomb--the 1950s might seem carefree. Next to the 1960s and 1970s--which gave us race riots, Vietnam, Watergate and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that decade might seem like "Happy Days." But the truth is, no decade can fairly be termed "carefree...
Most schools are taking a tough stand against bigotry. Last October, after the independent conservative paper Dartmouth Review compared college president James Freedman, who is Jewish, to Hitler, the trustees denounced the editors for "ignorance and moral blindness." Months earlier, the university had taken sterner action, suspending three Review staffers for harassing a black professor of music. However, reinstatement of the students was ordered this month by a superior-court judge, and they are now suing the university for breach of contract, arguing that it did not live up to its bylaws, which guarantee free expression...
There are no moral complexities here, no cunning passages of history, no double agents trading allegiances for meaning. But there is a tumultuous plot, an appealing young protagonist -- who except Hitler could root against a pre- pubescent? -- and a prime villain. Colonel Gregor Laemmle, the SS officer in pursuit of Thomas, is far more than the usual posturing sadist. A former philosophy professor, he is a connoisseur of art and literature and something of a chess master himself. Laemmle regards the hunting of Thomas as a large- scale tournament, with gambits to be savored even when they go against...
...million for Maxwell's Daily Mirror. "What Murdoch has achieved is stupendous," concedes Maxwell, but he jabs at his foe for becoming a U.S. citizen so he could acquire American TV stations. "I chose Britain for better or for ill," says Maxwell. "I love the British. They kept Hitler...