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...University of Wisconsin Cardinal called the landlord's action "injustice of the vilest sort!" Iris, who is 20, and chairman of the campus social-relations committee, said she would take her case to court. She added: "I'm not afraid of sticking my neck out and getting my name smeared all over. I feel strongly." In Manhattan, Iris' mother gave her worried approval: "I know she has done right. . . . But I wish she'd let someone else tilt lances at windmills...
Einstein was once violently pacifist. In 1930 he wrote: ". . . That vilest offspring of the herd mind-the odious militia. . . ." After Hitler, his thoughts became somewhat more martial. He is also a Zionist ("The Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew"), an internationalist ("Nationalism is the measles of mankind"). Einstein claims that he is a religious man ("Every really deep scientist must necessarily have religious feeling"). But he does not believe in the immortality of the soul...
...Foulest & Vilest." First witness was Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, of the British medical corps ("I have never seen anything that would touch [Belsen]. . . . There were piles of corpses lying all over the camp. . . . The huts were full to overflowing with prisoners in every state of emaciation and disease. There was every known variety of disease in that camp Dead lay where they fell . . ."). His testimony would have been enough to hang most of the 45 defendants (who are charged with an average 1,000 murders each). But there were other witnesses...
...Harold Le Druillenec, British: "When the British tanks came, I was having my first meal in five days. I was eating grass. . . . I think I can fairly describe Belsen as the foulest and vilest spot that ever soiled the surface of the earth...
...your report (TIME, July 31) of an article I wrote recently for Christianity and Crisis you have me saying that the word lamb in Japanese is an "epithet of contempt and derision . . . perhaps the vilest word in the language." What I actually said is that one of the Japanese words for sheep is such an epithet...