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...year-old Committee for a Jewish Army, headed by aggressive Journalist Pierre Van Paassen (Days of Our Years, That Day Alone), found more than 1,500 distinguished citizens eager to sign its plea: they ranged from Episcopalian Bishop H. P. Almon Abbott to Sculptor William Zorach. At a dinner in Manhattan last week, about 1,000 of them applauded speeches which demanded immediate formation of the Army-made up of European refugees and Jews of Palestine and the Middle East-and criticized U.S. and British official delay...
Pierre Van Paassen, no Jew but a longtime friend of Zionism, set up his committee to seek, through U.S. pressure, what Britain has thus far refused. Britain permits Jews in Palestine to enlist as individuals (20,000 have); it has set up several all-Jewish regiments. But again last week it balked at an independent Jewish Army-largely because the British must also consider the sympathies of 30,000,000 Middle Eastern Arabs...
...doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books by correspond ents: The Men Around Churchill ($3) by René Kraus; That Day Alone ($3.75 ) by Pierre van Paassen...
...judgment you mean Hitler?" asked van Paassen...
Pierre van Paassen understands that the dilemma of pur time, which enabled the Nazis to take power, which still keeps the democracies from fully effective action, is caused by the ideological bankruptcy of the right no more and no less than by the moral bankruptcy of the left. He seeks to by-pass this dilemma by an appeal to conscience, and the force of his fervors lies in part in this simplification. For as a social seer he is really only asking a question. It is as old as Adam and still unanswerable: "Where is thy brother Abel...