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...nominate Yehudi Menuhin. This artist has shown by his words and actions such a sane outlook upon the affairs of this world that he puts to shame the managers of our international life. He teaches a lesson that . . . tolerance is a two-way street-that the hand of friendship must be stretched out to all men of good will-and not only to those that you particularly approve...
Next day, at his own insistence, 31-year-old Jewish Violinist Menuhin faced 2,000 Jews at Dueppel Center. This time he left his fiddle at home. Yes, he had played for the Germans. "I have played for the hard-pressed wherever and whenever I could. . . . You are truly the victims of Naziism, but the tragedy is that you have grown to be like the Nazis. . . . You make your judgments on a racial basis, and you demand that art and music be harnessed in the cause of hate. Love and not hate will heal the world...
...audience greeted his remarks with stunned silence. But Yehudi at least convinced Editor Jonas that he was no traitor. Said Jonas: "If Menuhin offered us a concert today, we would all go. Perhaps it is too much to expect that those who have not experienced persecutions and camps should understand our feelings...
Married. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, violin virtuoso; and British Ballerina Diana Gould, 33, daughter of a concert pianist, stepdaughter of a British admiral; he for the second time, she for the first; 17 days after his first divorced him; in London...
...other news of Violinist Menuhin, see Music...