Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poland's prewar Jewish population of 3,250,000 about three in a hundred survived the Nazi massacres. Despite the fact that the present Jewish community (an estimated 45,000) is only an infinitesimal part (less than .2%) of the population of Communist Poland, a wave of anti-Semitism is sweeping the country. Since the break with Russia last October and the relaxation of border regulations, more than 25,000 Jews have applied for passports to Israel. An exodus, including intellectuals, manual laborers and Communists, is in progress, reported New York Times Correspondent Sydney Gruson...
...stake was far closer to the British home and pocketbook: rent control. Last week, despite some timid objections from the back benches, the Macmillan government was going all out to put through its bill relaxing the controls which have frozen some 6,000,000 British rents at close to prewar levels ever since 1939 (only 6½% of income now goes for rent, as opposed to 11% prewar). The bill would raise the rent ceilings on some 5,000,000 houses and apartments up to $2.80 weekly after six months' notice, would remove controls entirely from 800,000 higher...
...representative of Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board in Sweden. Olson and Johnson put the mission to Wallenberg simply: Would he go to Budapest as a member of the neutral Swedish-legation staff and, using U.S. funds, try to save Hungary's remaining 300,000-odd Jews (prewar Hungarian Jewish population: 800,000) from Nazi gas chambers or slave-labor camps? Wallenberg was warned that if the Germans or the Hungarian puppet government learned of his work, nothing could be done to save him. "If I can help," said Raoul Wallenberg, "if I can save a single person...
...guillotine and the screams of the hysterical mob. The reaction of first-night critics was divided. Some were charmed by the opera's lyricism and moved by its emotional power; others found its music imitative or thought they detected in the more elegant passages the old prewar Poulenc peeping through the sackcloth. "Fine theater, but mediocre music," said Corriere della Sera Music Critic Franco Abbiati. Said the widely read Socialist daily Avanti! chauvinistically: "A truly French poverty in the primary operatic materials." But the Scala opening-night audience, toughest opera audience in the world, rewarded beaming Composer Poulenc...
...thriller specialist, though still no match for Simenon or Erie Stanley Gardner, Marquand has suffered a marked loss of innocence since prewar days. In Mr. Moto's Three Aces the publishers have revived some old Moto yarns in which the mastermind outwits Chinese bandits, Russian gunmen, murderous extremists from his own country, and invariably becomes involved with a well-intentioned but hopelessly naive young American who blunders through the labyrinth of Asiatic intrigue. But Stopover: Tokyo is a brand-new Moto novel, and the change is significant: no longer need Mr. Moto patiently explain to the young American what...