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...Report of 1937, "it is a conflict of right with right." Last week-one world war and one local war later-the judgment was still valid. The Jews were right, because 4,000 years ago the narrow strip of Palestine, where 1,670,000 today carve out their earthly Zion, became the cradle of their culture and religion. The Arabs were right, because for more than 1,000 years the land had been theirs...
Died. James Leo ("One-Eye") Connelly, 84, who devoted a lifetime to gate-crashing and became a sports-page legend during the '20s; in Zion, Ill. One eye blinded in a boyhood boxing accident, Connelly masqueraded as a sandwich vendor, iceman, or plumber's helper to outwit gatemen and gain free admission. Before he retired at 65, he boasted that during his career he had seen every Kentucky Derby, all but three heavyweight-championship bouts, countless football and baseball games, on principle had never paid for or accepted a ticket...
...Take the word Presbyterian itself (from Greek presbyteros, comparative of presbys, old). It would seem to mean "of or pertaining to the elders." Thus any old people's home, of whatever religion, becomes by definition a presbyterian (though not, Mr. Wolfe, a Presbyterian) establishment; and the Elders of Zion have, by the same token, as good a right to the adjective as the Kirk of Scotland. Similarly, after rooting for the origins of the word church (from Greek kyriake, kyriakon, the Lord's house, from kyriakos, concerning a master or lord, from kyrios, master), we might forgivably maintain...
...orthodoxy of the ghetto did not have to cope with the maintenance of a modern state, and the religious laws that nourished and protected the Judaism of the Diaspora can be an embarrassment once Zion has been attained. Yet the rabbinate, while recognizing that such basic services as electricity, water, telephone and telegraph must be maintained seven days a week, cannot bring itself to give the necessary dispensation to Orthodox Jews. Said one of them last week: "Jews are permitted to work on the Sabbath if the security of the nation is threatened, or to save human life...
Recently Maguire put up money to help distribute Iron Curtain over America, by Southern Methodist University Professor John Beaty, a book that the oldest Methodist Church periodical in the U.S., Zion's Herald, calls the "most extensive piece of racist propaganda in the history of the anti-Semitic movement in America." He has also been a supporter of such propagandists as Merwin K. Hart, and worked with Allen A. Zoll, whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the U.S. Attorney General as a "Fascist" organization. Zoll at first was an account executive handling the Mercury's ads, later...