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...Goldmann Affair. Despite such protests, the bombing was clearly a propaganda setback for Israel. So was the fallout from an incident that occurred earlier in the week that the Israelis called "the Goldmann Affair." Dr. Nahum Goldmann, 74, is a Polish-born Zionist leader who maintains that for the sake of peace Israel ought to be a small neutralized protectorate "of the whole of mankind," including Arabs. Through political contacts outside Israel, Goldmann apparently managed to interest Nasser in a meeting to explore possible peace terms. Nasser insisted, however, that Goldmann notify the Israeli government of what he was doing...
Weinberg was the son of a Polish-born liquor dealer, and his formal education ended with graduation from P.S. 13 in Brooklyn. The short, bespectacled Jewish boy began his career during the Panic of 1907 by going to a Wall Street skyscraper, knocking on the door of every office and asking if the company needed help. When he got to the Goldman, Sachs office, he was taken on as a porter's assistant. A large part of his ability to win financiers' confidence was that he not only did not hide this background but even exploited the curiosity...
...trio's exploits began in April 1967. Master Sergeant Wolf-Diethard Knope, a Luftwaffe Starfighter pilot, Josef Linowski, a Polish-born civilian, and Manfred Ramminger, another civilian, worked together to steal a navigational device from the Zell airbase in southern Germany. Ramminger then casually packed it in his suitcase and flew off to Moscow to deliver his prize. That, however, was a mere warm-up for their big operation...
...faced, big-boned and monumentally tall (he is 6 ft. 4 in.), he displays the New England legislator's characteristic attention to detail and distaste for florid rhetoric. It was hardly foreseeable before last week that the Democratic vice-presidential nominee?who is in fact the son of a Polish-born tailor?would be matched against a Republican opposite number from Maryland with a curiously similar background. Muskie and Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's running mate, are both sons of immigrants. Both grew up in straitened circumstances. Both have foreshortened surnames, and both are generally unfamiliar to the American electorate...
...international socialist revolution is difficult for some men to give up. Isaac Deutscher is one of those who seem to have taken to it as others take to wine and women. He still carries a torch for the Russian Revolution as the guiding light of future world history. A Polish-born Communist, expelled from the party in 1932 for political deviation, Deutscher is now a Britain-based historian and widely considered one of the leading experts on Communism. His three-volume study of Trotsky (The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast) is an outstanding biography of that tragic...