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For the first time a man sentenced by Dictator Benito Mussolini's drastic "Fascist Military Tribunal For Defense of the State" was pardoned and set free last week.
Leo Moulin, a young Belgian professor, had smuggled into Italy and secretly distributed anti-Fascist leaflets. When for this crime he was sentenced to only two years in jail, Fascists shrugged, "Well, what could the Tribunal do? Our Crown Prince has just married a Belgian" (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930).
In Budapest some years ago Jewish Andreas David wished to enter the University. He paid a fixer, one Stephen Karsay. who got him admitted despite a numerus clausus (enrolment limitation) ruling directed against Jews. Later Student David found that Fixer Karsay had taken a laborer named Ziesander Cripeler to a...
Jewry does not seek converts. It even discourages those few non-Jews who seek to join. Nevertheless, as sometimes happens, Jewry was petitioned in Warsaw by a Roman Catholic named Antoni-Stefan Raczynski. The Warsaw Rabbinate refused the application, was backed by the Minister of Education who cited a Tsarist...
Last week The American Jewish World viewed the conversion of Pan Raczynski as a "strange case." It said: "For centuries it was considered [by civil authorities] a crime for Jews to accept a Christian convert. At certain periods in history, it constituted a capital crime. Now we have a decision...