Word: pogroms
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...dual salute to his own work and the reopening of an enlarged, acoustically sharpened Royal Festival Hall, Tippett last week conducted the London Philharmonic in a performance of his most celebrated oratorio, the 23-year-old A Child of Our Times. The libretto, based on the savage pogrom with which Hitler avenged the assassination of a German diplomat by a Jewish boy in 1938, poignantly plumbs the agonies of the persecuted. What gives the theme a wider, painfully topical relevance is Tippett's skillful weaving into the score of five Negro spirituals, after the style of a Bach chorale...
...Pogrom by the Sea. The Buddhists started yelling that the new government setup denied them sufficient authority, particularly since their man, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, had been ousted as nominal chief of state. Although they had little cause for complaint under Buddhist Khanh's rule, the monks now claimed that too many of Diem's old followers remained in the government. Busily stirring up ancient hatreds between the two faiths was Thich Tri Quang, the monk who enjoyed refuge in the United States embassy last year-an ambitious, probably neutralist and possibly pro-Communist intriguer...
...coastal Danang, 380 miles north of Saigon, an "executive committee" of 15 Buddhists arrived by bus from the militantly Buddhist city of Hue. What followed was an anti-Catholic pogrom. A mob invaded a fishing village housing 4,000 Catholic refugees from Communist North Viet Nam and, as the residents fled in boats, burned 90% of their homes. The government was either unwilling or unable to stop the riots. Beyond detaining 40 looters, Vietnamese troops in Danang merely watched the proceedings. Their Buddhist commander, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, appeared once, drew cheers from the rioters, retired after inspecting the ruins...
...pogrom had been inspired by the assassination of German Diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a 17-year-old stateless Jew named Hershel Grynszpan.* It was, Joseph Goebbels told Hitler, a propaganda opportunity equal to that of the Reichstag fire. Hitler agreed, and the Storm Troopers were released for their "spontaneous" action, while regular police turned their backs. Both German television networks last week filled their peak viewing hours with programs mercilessly reminding Germans of what they had allowed to happen. Leading newspapers devoted entire pages to recollecting in detail the horrors of Kristallnacht...
...willing to strike as one of the minorities in a pluralistic society. When court victories produce only a harvest of fear and distrust, will it all have been worthwhile?" "Threatening & Patronizing." Jewish leaders responded as if the Jesuits had suggested that this was a good time for a pogrom. "America performs a disservice in raising the spectre of anti-Semitism," said Rabbi Elmer Berger of the American Council for Judaism. In a joint statement, the leaders of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis reacted "with chagrin and disappointment" to America's "threatening...