Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Government, which had been accused of negligence in the Kielce affair, did some hand-washing of its own. It tried and convicted twelve of the Kielce Jew-killers. By week's end nine were already dead by hanging and the others were in prison...
Meanwhile, Henryk Blasczyk, the boy who started the pogrom, admitted that his story was a lie. He had stayed for two days in a Kielce house, where Jew-hating agitators had coached him in the old anti-Semitic falsehood...
...British expected more trouble, and the Jews promised it. Said one leading British Jew last week: "The British Government can stop this thing only by exterminating the Jews." No one supposed that the British were preparing any such move. Last week harassed Downing Street, under pressure from the Jews, the Arabs, the British Laborites, the U.S. (generous with advice, but little else, on the Palestine problem), Russia (ever watchful for a chance to expand into the Middle East), did not know how it would move...
Einstein was once violently pacifist. In 1930 he wrote: ". . . That vilest offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...
...pretty well succeeded. She lived for months in a tent by the shore of Lake Michigan in order to put out the magazine. In 1918, after moving to Manhattan, she began a three-year struggle to publish Joyce's Ulysses-in which Uncle Alfred, disguised as a Dublin Jew, suffered the most exhaustive and stylistically lavish scrutiny...