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Averting a Lynching. On the touchy issue of race relations, the Independent was remarkably outspoken for its time. "The Jew and the Negro are not unlike our own people." said the Bank Clerk, a front-page character who held weekly colloquies with the Soda Jerker. "We have our own ignorant, vulgar, loudmouthed, swaggering, chiseling white Christian Nordics." Soda Jerker: "Yes, but with this difference: the Jew and the Negro are minorities and we are in the majority. Our own breed of jackasses so far outnumber us that we long ago gave up the idea of handling them." When a twelve...
...Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. In this dark novel, the author, a German Jew, tries with some success to unthread the fabric of hate: Why did the Germans, Jew and Gentile, acquiesce so passively in Hitler's crime of Jewish extermination...
There ensued a massive international legal tangle. In Israel, Soblen's lawyers challenged the legality of his expulsion, later applied in his behalf for a visa under the "law of return," which gives every Jew the right to enter Israel as an immigrant; both moves failed. In Britain, Soblen put in for a writ of habeas corpus and requested political asylum; after a jumble of unsuccessful appeals, and after the Israeli government-controlled El Al airline refused to fly him to the U.S.. the Home Office ordered him deported. Soblen appealed that order through the courts, got nowhere...
...just had to have an outlet for fun." Behind his teasing, Roosevelt had reasons for hesitations about Frankfurter. For geographical balance, Roosevelt had wanted to name a man from the West or Midwest. Roosevelt well knew that he would stir up a storm by naming a foreign-born Jew with a well-deserved reputation as a radical advocate of liberal causes. But Frankfurter's prestige among U.S. men of law was great, and most of them could agree with the Nation's comment that the appointment had a "satisfying inevitability...
Then Dubinsky struck out at the notion that anyone should be elected or appointed to responsible office simply because of being a minority member. Said he: "I'll be damned if I will support the idea of the professional Negro, the professional Jew, the professional Italian, that a man should be a union officer because of his race, color or creed. He should be an officer on his merits, ability and character...