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...Born a Jew (his great-grandfather was a rabbi), Picard became a Roman Catholic in 1939. But long before his conversion, his writings reflected a Christian horror of the divided and uncertain world around him. Often more emotional than logical, they are written in German in a tense prose-poetry that is hard to translate. Now, with the publication in the U.S. of Picard's most famous book, The Flight from God (Henry Regnery; $2.50), U.S. readers get a look at the essence of Max Picard's philosophy...
...from a speech made by Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky. The speech, an appeal to national pride which might have stemmed from Adolf Hitler, was a bitter attack on "Jewish capitalism" and "interference from Jerusalem." Slansky, like several of the victims of Czechoslovakia's current party purge, is a Jew. Therefore, he is, in the favorite word the Commies use to denounce Jews, a "cosmopolite." The Communist organ Rude Pravo explained further: "Traitors of the type of Slansky . . . are indifferent to the past and present of the people among whom they live because they have nothing in common with them...
...half years, Father Leonard Feeney has been taking his "cause" to the people in similar weekly appearances on the Boston Common. His harangues have gotten more bitten and vitriolic every Sunday, and his audience, larger. His "cause" is to "rid our city of every coward liberal Catholic, Jew dog, Protestant brute, and 33rd degree Mason who is trying to suck the soul from good Catholics and sell the true faith for greenbacks...
Despite his attacks on the Jews, Feeney claims to be their friend. "I like a Jew better than a Protestant," he says. "You never know where a Protestant stands, but you know where a Jew does. He tells you and you can take sides, but those Protestants...
...there and learning Feeney's ideas. Much of the background was obtained from the files of Gordon Hall, editor of "Countertide."As the photographer started to take this picture last Sunday on the Boston Common, the crowd turned toward the cameraman after Father Feeney had shouted, "There's a Jew photographer taking my picture...