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Under the Tsars, Poland saw some horrible pogroms, and, later, the Beck regime was also openly antiSemitic. To this residue of racist poison, during the German occupation, the Nazis added their own anti-Semitic slime. The Germans almost ended Poland's Jewish problem by killing nearly all the Jews. Of 3,500,000 prewar Polish Jews, some 300,000 survive. Most of them are still in Russia, Germany or elsewhere outside the country. Only 80,000 of the Jews who stayed in Poland are left alive...
...Poison & Push Buttons. Congressmen listening to last week's testimony soon learned that the bill could not be judged by ordinary standards. Said Major General Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan Project which developed the bomb: "We are flirting with national suicide if this thing gets out of control. If one mistake is made, we may face national disaster...
...Research and Development, described some: "I certainly . . . want to see rigid federal control of what is done in this area [atomic research]. I certainly do not wish to think that some group of [atomic] experimenters might set up a laboratory half a mile from my home and family and . . . poison the neighborhood, or possibly blow it up. . . .I say we are faced with a very difficult thing to control . . . and I would make a very strong commission to do it." Bush added that radioactivity from careless experiments might "sterilize everyone who passed by" in the immediate vicinity...
...Laval, death was like a very messy bus accident. He was lying on his cot as officials approached the cell to take him. Before they could reach him, he slipped a poison capsule into his mouth, rolled writhing to the floor...
...native faction which calls itself the Indonesian Republic declared war on the Dutch, Eurasians and Amboinese (warlike Amboina Islanders, many of whom have joined the Netherlands Army). Weapons (according to Indonesian People's Army headquarters): "All kinds of firearms, also poison, poisoned darts and arrows, all methods of arson and . . . wild animals, as for instance snakes...