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...Soviet Union (TIME, June 2). Next day the court passed sentence: life imprisonment for 14 of the murderers, 15 years' hard labor for the other two. An old Communist in the audience, who had not forgotten his year at Sachsenhausen, hissed: "They're making these swine out to be poor misguided people. I hope they send them all to the lead mines in Siberia...
...Moslems for all the wicked atrocities they have perpetrated upon innocent people. Moslems killed my old father, abducted my young daughter, slew my son and maimed my foot. No mercy whatsoever should be shown to them. I've always treated my Moslem laborers with kindness but the dirty swine have repaid me with brutality...
...Street windows said: "We did it because the owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole into a Jewish cemetery, uprooted gravestones, defaced them with signs: "Hang the Jews," "Dirty Jews," "Pig," "Swine." There were other outbreaks in Cardiff, Devonport, Liverpool...
...notion of defending to the death the rights of swine to swinish, so long as they keep it verbal, is a notion which did very well for the period of English quietism in which it was most popular, but in rough times like the present it is too often an excuse for nonparticipation in public life. The common-garden myth of toleration goes about like this: permitted to express themselves, "extremists" "blow off steam," and are consequently less dangerous; the "extremes" neutralize each other in some way and serve as a means of locating the current Middle Ground, where...
...turtles" he kept in his back yard as a small boy, is now a specialist in herpetology. An editor, who says he "never went to school much," lists, among others, the following subjects he feels qualified to give an opinion on: dairying, entomology, the Society of Friends, gypsies, swine husbandry, Latin poetry...