Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sartre (who is not a Jew himself), anti-Semitism is sometimes the mediocre snob's means to a social end. ("Proust showed, for example, how anti-Dreyfusism brought the duke closer to his coachman . . ."). It also makes the French (or U.S.) Jew feel that no matter how hard he tries to be a real Frenchman (or American) he can never really be one-which makes the Gentile feel more like part of the nation's backbone himself...
...anti-Semite, says Sartre, allows the Jews "only as much free will as is necessary to bear the full responsibility of the crimes he commits, but not enough to be able to reform." But the Jew whom he hates so bitterly is simultaneously the man he most depends on, because if he were unable to pin the world's woes on the Jews he would be forced to examine his own failings...
...Orientation Branch of the I & E Division published Orientation Fact Sheet No. 64 on Fascism, which included a section on 'how can we identify native American fascists at work?" The fact-sheet stated that "in the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti-foreign-born." And, just a month or so ago, an elementary text, "Economics: Principles and Problems," used in an I & E United States Armed Forces Institute course and regarded as harmless and valuable by a dozen large U.S. universities, was denounced as Communistic propaganda by Capitol Hill critics...
Wolf Cukersvein, a 35-year-old, Warsaw-born doctor who left Poland because, as a Jew, he could not gain admission to a university; had fled anti-Semitism in Italy; settled in Toulouse as a radiologist: "Even there I ... could not get work because of racial prejudice...
Berman has sentimental Charles Boyer eyes, is also known for his Quiz-Kid memory, his eloquence and his highly unsentimental political skill. The current renaissance of Poland's traditionally virulent anti-Semitism increases his unpopularity (Berman is a Jew), but his power is enormous. No document moves in. or out of the Premier's office without his O.K., and foreign diplomats, when stymied elsewhere, go to him for decisive action. A foreign visitor once called him: "A Harry Hopkins without a Roosevelt." The comparison applies to Berman's behind-the-scenes role, not to his objectives...