Word: pogrom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National defense, the subject foremost in President Roosevelt's mind since the elections, was pushed aside by him for a few minutes last week while he enunciated with icy deliberation the nation's considered opinion of Adolf Hitler & Co.'s super-pogrom (see p. 10). When he returned to national defense, it was with implied reference again to Adolf Hitler & Co. The possibility of the U. S. being air-raided, he said, had increased tremendously in five years. When asked if he had any particular air-raiders in mind, he told his questioner to reread the international...
...civilized world stands revolted by a bloody pogrom against a defenseless people. Every instinct in us cries out in protest against the outrages which have taken place in Germany during the last five years and which sank to new depths in the organized frenzies of the last few days. . . . If you saw a gang of cowardly ruffians set upon a helpless man in a public street and proceed to beat him, you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw a fanatical mob pillage and burn a church or a synagogue you wouldn't long remain silent...
...spoliation did not end with the three-day pogrom. At the Air Ministry in Berlin last week, Air Minister Goring signed, as Economic Chief of the German Four-Year Plan for Self-Sufficiency. decrees providing: 1) that Jews of German citizenship as a community pay to the State a billion marks indemnity for the assassination of Rath; 2) that the State confiscate whatever is payable to Jews by insurance companies for damage done last week; 3) that Jewish owners of damaged premises must repair them at their own cost; 4) that after Jan. 1, 1939 Jews be excluded from "operation...
...painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors and executives were jolted out of their complacency by the realization that "a pogrom could actually occur in a highly civilized country in the Twentieth Century." To study anti-Semitism at work, and write a book about it, he went to Germany, which left him still puzzled so he went on to Poland, then to Palestine, to Soviet Russia. He wound up with...
...stories, gossip, limitless ambition, ineffectuality, tolerance and intolerance. As is the case with most of the current memoirs, the details of Joseph Freeman's personal story are less interesting than their background. Born in a Ukrainian village of Jewish parents, he lived there long enough to remember a pogrom, was taken to the U. S. in 1904. Growing up in the poverty-stricken Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, he learned U. S. ways painfully, was beaten up by Irish boys, stumbled over the English language, saw one of his friends flee after killing a policeman, learned the reality of hard...