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...turned over by Switzerland in the 1946 settlement. Jewish organizations in several countries urge that it be given to surviving victims of Nazism, or to charities or Israel. That step is needed to right the wrong the Allies perpetrated when they ignored individual claims on the gold, suggests Greville Janner, a British Member of Parliament and chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust. "Now is the time to do what is worthy and decent and honorable," he says, "which is to give the residual gold to the victims, Jewish and non-Jewish." Such a step is "highly unlikely," a British Foreign...
Even on such a historic day, the session had its characteristic verbal swordplay. Labour M.P. Greville Janner stood and thanked Thatcher for "many personal kindnesses." Then, voice rising, he ticked off a list of miseries and inquired if she was aware that she was leaving the country "in such a shambles." Murmurs of approval from the Labour benches. Thatcher quickly stood up and tartly replied to the Right Honourable Janner, "He can speak to any brief, and I don't believe he believes a word of it." Roars of delight from the Tory side...
...first major exhibit of fish decoys opened last week at the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan. The decoys range from unadorned wooden designs to the elaborately painted "ghost fish" of Michigan carver Hans Janner Sr. "The most highly valued fish decoys are charming, but they are also fabulous at doing their jobs as tools," says Ben Apfelbaum, curator of the exhibition. Not all decoys are expensive. Contemporary Native American wooden fish can be bought...
...English team of Anthony Lloyd and Greville Janner upheld the negative side of the topic, "Resolved, That the American Dollar is God's Greatest Gift to England." Jay Nusbaum '53 and Frank Olson '53 supported the affirmative for the Debate Council...
...Janner and Lloyd suggested that "courage" was a more suitable word to describe God's greatest gift to the British people...