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...owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole into a Jewish cemetery, uprooted gravestones, defaced them with signs: "Hang the Jews," "Dirty Jews," "Pig," "Swine." There were other outbreaks in Cardiff, Devonport, Liverpool...
...observation that racialism follows race concentrations did not aplly. London, with two-thirds of all Britain's 385,000 Jews, had a relatively mild anti-Semitic seizure. Leeds, with the highest proportionate concentration of Jews among British cities, heard some muttering but saw no violence. Liverpool, with a small, old, well-integrated Jewish group, had four nights of window smashing, synagogue burning and looting to a refrain of anti-Jewish slogans. There, at least 100 shop windows were broken, mostly by adolescents; sometimes crowds as large as 2,000 looked on, did nothing except to give an occasional cheer...
...cadet (at one shilling a month) in white-hulled, white-topped, square-rigged ships, "with no steam at all." First of his family to follow the sea, he left his Lake District home for the long (about 100 days each way) run through the clean seas that lie between Liverpool's dirty Mersey and Rangoon's dirty Irrawaddy. Out with salt and back with rice, Captain Illingworth remembers now. "It was a hard life and a good life," he says, "and I like to think there will never be a better way of learning this trade. We used...
...Questions? In Liverpool, England, Chef Paul Greenburge was perfectly frank with the bobbies about why he had kidnaped a 17-year-old girl and lived with her for a year: "She is a very pretty girl and I was fed up with my wife...
...Liverpool, England's best hope of winning the British Open golf championship died when haughty Henry Cotton took a second-round 78 and stormed off the green in a huff. One London paper consoled its readers: "For a welcome change, the Americans are not in the van." In fact, most topflight U.S. pros, including Defending Champion Sam Snead, did not even show up.* The winner: jaunty little Ulsterite Fred Daly of Belfast, who grinned and said: "It's lucky to be Irish...