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...nothing personal, merely inevitable. Or was that all? "Stalin's . . . spite," wrote Lenin, ". . . is a most evil factor in politics." Said Trotsky: "He is a kind of opportunist with a bomb." In the outer world, in those days, many intellectuals excused Stalin's methodical slaughter as a necessary first step toward a Communist paradise on earth...
...right now. Take first base, for example. We can't keep on wasting the world's best outfielder there, and we don't have enough decent outfielders to go around anyhow. Third base is a problem, too, and the pitching staff isn't getting any younger. And how about Slaughter--will he have another great year...
Communist generosity towards Jewry began years ago when the Party grated religious freedom. Then Hitler's slaughter offered Stalin a perfect opportunity to show his golden heart and pull a coup on Breat Britain and the United States in the process. By offering the province of Birobijan as a Jewish national homeland, while the UN was still fighting over who would get Palestine, Stalin hoped to alienate the large remnant of Europe's Jews from the Western world. Thousands did go to Birobijan, a vast expanse of tundra whose only abundant natural resource is snow. They have not been heard...
Bulldogs showed well in all the field events, to score 531/2 points. Nassau took second with 43, and the flu-weakened Crimson brought up the rear at 401/2. The undefeated Yardlings were kept from invoking a slaughter only by injuries, and as it was won by almost 30 points...
...long precedent. As special emissary of Benedict XV in World War I, the present Pope journeyed to Berlin to deliver a fruitless appeal to spare the life of Nurse Edith Cavell. And in 1944, Pius XII again asked the Germans for mercy-and was refused again-in the slaughter of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine caves near Rome. During the Spanish Civil War, Pius XI was successful in persuading General Franco to spare the lives of several Loyalist prisoners...