Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats need a landslide in New York City-where the "minorities" make up a majority. Biggest bloc: 2,600.000 Roman Catholics. The Jewish population, 2,400,000, has shown little passion for either candidate. Among the Jews spread rumors, since denied, of Father Joe Kennedy's sympathy to Nazi Germany while he was Ambassador to England on the eve of World War II. Similar rumors spread that in the heat of Nixon's California senatorial campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, he sneered that she was married to Actor Melvyn Douglas, "whose real name is Hesselberg...
...protesting the arms race. In both cases the obvious danger was widespread destruction, the explicit question was war. But a man attending meetings of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies was ready to fight not abstain; it was clear what the government should do. Horrified by Nazi conquests, he knew that neutrality was an impossible position, that Lend-Lease was essential to prevent Europe from being altogether crushed. In this case, the desire was to lash out at a nation of criminals, not to refrain from using a criminal weapon. The decision to fight is always easier...
...were French men and women-teachers, mathematicians, TV producers, actors-who had betrayed the government of France not for money but out of an idealistic fervor of their own. One of the defendants, pale, thin France Binard, had lost eight members of her family in Nazi concentration camps. She said grimly: "I answer fully for what I have done. Through my presence here before you, I continue my fight." Defendant Jean-Claude Paupert. an ex-soldier who served in Algeria, said what he had seen there made him a supporter of the F.L.N. "I have helped the Algerians." he announced...
...Minister Vyacheslav M. ("The Hammer") Molotov was being brought back to represent Russia on the International Atomic Energy Agency in gay Vienna. With characteristic tact, the Russians chose to break the news on the 21st anniversary of the day Molotov signed the 1939 non-aggression treaty between Russia and Nazi Germany...
Summer bonus: four remarkably fine first novels. The Bridge, by Manfred Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of teen-age Nazi conscripts, thrown into the suicidal campaign of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains, but this time those of a less savory hero...