Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week top UNRRA officials wondered what to do about General Sir Frederick Morgan. They had asked him to resign his post as UNRRA director in Germany after he had charged Polish Jews with planning to flee Europe (TIME, Jan. 14). The General had ignored their demands, and that was awkward...
...were the well-fed, well-dressed Jews whom General Morgan had described. Most were in tatters, without shoes, with festering sores and wounds, road-weary and tired unto death...
...journalism took a second look at its part in the Morgan affair (see INTERNATIONAL), and what it saw turned its face red-or should have. In quoting Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan about an organized Jewish "plot" (the press's word, not Morgan's) to smuggle the Jews out of Europe, the press had told some of the truth, but not the whole truth...
...Morgan had tried to present a "sober inventory" of the situation. "The statements now widely quoted [made during a chatty question-and-answer period] were qualified by other remarks that indicated his sympathy and concern for European Jews. . .. Both journalism and Jewry have . . . wildly interpreted and elaborated on [his] remarks...
Thanks to Howard Bay's sets, it never loses its looks. Jan Clayton (Carousel) proves a winning Magnolia, Colette Lyons an agreeable Ellie, Buddy Ebsen a live dancing personality and Ralph Dumke a jovial Captain Andy. And handsome Carol Bruce, tackling the Bill that made the late Helen Morgan famous, brought down the opening-night house...