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...frightening idea really began to ake hold on June 24, 1947. That was the lay when Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho ooked out of his airplane near Mt. Rainier nd saw-or thought he saw-nine enormous discs flying at 1,200 m.p.h. The .ewspapers began to talk about "flying saucers...
Last week's U.N. story starts, properly, with a bearded, 16th Century Frenchman called Jean Bodin, who believed in witchcraft, numerology, astronomy a"nd national sovereignty...
...hundreds of other U.S. zone cities and towns last week, the 33,000 citizens of Schwäbisch-Gmünd were electing a Bürgermeister. Up for re-election was Franz Czisch, a 40-year-old grocer and Christian Democrat whom the Nazis had once expelled from law school as a "half-Jew." Opposing him, on a no-party ticket, was Franz Konrad, Bürgermeister under Hitler, twice denazified by his neighbors...
...basis of efficient administration, Czisch was the favorite to win. More than that, his work in behalf of 2,200 Christian and Jewish refugees who had come to Schwäbisch-Gmünd from beyond the Iron Curtain won him a commendation from the U.S. military government...
...Czisch helps the refugees-he's a Jew!" It grew in volume with the use of a sound truck and another charge: "Czisch is a stooge of the Americans!" On election day Konrad won easily. That night, young men marched the streets of Schwäbisch-Gmünd singing the Horst Wessel song. They stoned the house of Franz Czisch, shouted: "Go to Palestine where you belong!" Then they stoned the windows of Jewish shops...