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...person or persons who assembled them may never be identified, but they were almost certainly connected in some way to the secret police of Tsar Nicholas II. The apparent motive was to discredit radical and progressive groups within Russia by making them appear dupes of alien Jewish machinations. In 1921, a reporter for the London Times found the sources from which the Protocols had been lifted. The notion of Jewish leaders plotting secretly came from a novel called Biarritz (1868) by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name Sir John Retcliffe. Most of the language and ideas...
...government has unwittingly undermined its case with less-than-convincing assurances that census information would be treated confidentially. Official credibility was certainly not helped by disclosures that Munich census takers would be paid a bonus of $1 for every unregistered German they turned up and $2 for each illegal alien...
Given his antipathy toward the outdated, Ancient Evenings (Little, Brown; 709 pages; $19.95) is hands down the most surprising work Mailer has ever offered. It really is set entirely in an alien long ago, just as the author had been promising during the decade he took to write it. Yet no amount of advance speculation proves adequate to the thing itself: an artifact of evident craftsmanship and utterly invisible significance...
...Name look around see an alien country and other 19 year olds who should be back in the Sheets going to school driving cars drinking beer. They give you a gun--"Final goods kill them" This won't what was thought it would be like. These gooks want to kill you more than you went to kill them...
John Paul championed the right of all to receive a Christian education. He also called on Christians to examine the teachings of the church in their search for social justice. Said the Pope, in a thinly veiled attack on Marxist-oriented "liberation theologians": "It is not necessary to hold alien ideologies in order to love and defend man. You can find in the center of the [Christian] message the teaching which calls for commitment to human dignity." Christian doctrine, he declared, teaches that man "is not reducible to a mere instrument of production, nor an agent of political or social...