Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roly-poly Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff used Geneva for years as a soap box from which, with Jewish wit, he mocked the Great Powers for the hypocrisy of their peace diplomacy, noted that League of Nations proceedings often resemble fencing in the dark with pussywillows...
...occurred. Police along the Kurfürstendamm took little interest in the Jew hunt. When not in full cry after a Jew, zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots, stuck up posters reading "The Jew is the cause of all our troubles!" covered the doors of what they took to be Jewish shops with stickers warning "I am a Jew. Aryans enter my shop at their own risk!" Comic were the crestfallen looks of the blond, strapping huntsmen who started beating up a swarthy little man only to have him scream "Fools! I am a Storm Troop leader from Bavaria visiting Berlin...
...Party. Berlin's stern but not markedly anti-Semitic Chief of Police, old Rear Admiral Magnus von Levetzow, was ousted for not helping the Jew hunt along, replaced by that ruthless young huntsman Count Wolf von Helldorf. His first act was to decree that Berlin's Jewish-owned ice cream parlors which do most of their business in the evening must close at 7 p. m. Next the Storm Troops, who have recently been repressed, were again given "police duties" in Berlin to "purge the city." They swept like an avalanche over western Berlin, beating up Jews, daubing...
...Rumania, since Hohenzollern King Carol's youngest sister is the Archduchess Ileana of Habsburg, family ties kept the official press mum. At a meeting of the National Peasant Party, which spends most of its time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
Fortune On Manhattan's East Side, a rumor of an uncle who had died six years ago in South Africa leaving a $17,000,000 fortune burst on the tenement home of Abraham Starr, 58, impecunious Polish-Jewish ironworker, his wife Leah, his seven grown children and brood of grandchildren. The facts were that a Montreal lawyer had seen in the hands of a stranger a Polish newspaper listing the will of one Harry Koslack or Kozack who had bequeathed at least $1,000,000, maybe $6,000,000, to his sister who had married a man named Stareselsky...