Word: schwartzbard
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...Designer Paloma Picasso. Given the artist, a controversy about invitations was inevitable. In a country now governed by Socialists, it was arranged that every Socialist worth his card be put on the VIP list, while some members of other political groups almost had % to beg at the door. Christiane Schwartzbard, a Communist member of the Paris city council, bitterly complained about having been overlooked, tartly observing that Picasso himself was a Communist. Retorted Roger Roman, another of the uninvited council members, "Picasso does not belong to a faction, but to France--to the universe...
Sirs : Did you not, in your account of the Schwartzbard trial, [TIME, Nov. 7] omit one very important statement - namely, that the defendant fought valiantly in the French army during the World War, that he was awarded the Croix de Guerre? Petlura, a Russian, turned against his own people, assisted the enemy. Schwartzbard, a Russian, fought bravely against his country...
...highest court of France has acquitted Mr. Samuel Schwartzbard from any guilt in the Petlura affair, yet you, in your supposedly unbiased presentation of news, in TIME, Nov. 7, have called this man "murderer" and "culprit...
Such misuse of words I Who is a murderer ? Is it a man who by his courageous action saved the lives of many more than 50,000 Jews ? If Schwartzbard was what you so prominently titled him, then all those who risk their lives for a lofty principle in a war, they also would be murderers. The incidents of this affair were also a war by the butcher Petlura and his blood-thirsty gangs against an innocent and defenseless people. Any person who would get rid of such an inhuman, barbarous individual is a hero...
Also in dark letters you print the word "culprit." What should have followed this was a description of Petlura. He was the guilty person, the criminal. Instead you write so ignorantly or purposely of Schwartzbard. You gave the honor of a picture in your magazine to Schwartzbard and call him "murderer." There in that place should have been another, that was declared so by the most impartial and fairest court in the world...