Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upsetting both decent and indecent folks. In New Zealand a Supreme Court judge upheld a customs ban on the book. Ruled Sir Douglas Hutchison: "With the best consideration I can give it, I think Lolita is aphrodisiac.'' A sort of proof of his contention came in Israel, where one Joseph Wahrhaftig was nabbed for behavior tending to corrupt the morals of a minor girl. Wahrhaftig recently translated Lolita into Hebrew...
...There seems to be doubt in some quarters that Israel may legally try Adolf Eichmann. In this connection I quote an old statement on the law of piracy: "Piracy has always been regarded as a crime against all humanity; therefore, a pirate, wherever his crimes were committed, and against whomever committed, wherever he is captured, and regardless of by whom he is captured, may be tried anywhere and punished anywhere." If this is true of one whose crime consists of the seizure and plunder of a single ship, surely it is true of one who murdered millions of his fellowmen...
...Security Council that the kidnap of Mass Murderer Eichmann from Buenos Aires by Jewish "volunteers" was "incompatible with the preservation of international law." Argentina demanded "just reparations" and the punishment of those responsible. To avoid a showdown, an attempt was made to arrange a friendly meeting in Belgium between Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion and Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, who were both touring the Continent. Ben-Gurion agreed, provided that the return of Eichmann was not an issue. Other Israelis had resentfully pointed out that Argentina had provided a haven for Nazi war criminals; they defended the illegal...
Ignoring this offstage flurry, the Security Council approved by a vote of 8 to 0 (Russia and Poland abstaining) a resolution asking Israel to make "adequate reparation" to Argentina for having violated its sovereignty, but diplomatically failed to define either adequate or reparation. In Paris, wine" g up a state visit to France, President Frondizi said mellowly that he was "entirely satisfied...
...that has cost (by French estimates) the lives of 250,000 rebels. The French army has confined 11,000 Algerians in concentration camps, forced 1,500,000 men, women and children into "regroupment centers" whose squalor is unmatched even by the Arab refugee camps on Israel's borders. When a French radio reporter toured Algiers' casbah last week seeking reaction to the rebel decision to try negotiations, the few Moslems who would talk at all would say only that they were for peace...