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Last week Joda was one of a ragged band of 67 bitterly disillusioned Israelis who, fleeing their land of promise, had been caught smuggling themselves into, of all places, Germany. At Munich's Camp Fohrenwald, last remaining German D.P. camp for stateless Jews (where the feeling against the returners was high), Joda told his story: "When we got to Israel, I was told I was too old to be a butcher any more. I was put to work in a quarry. We were not beaten or mistreated, but otherwise things were not too different from life in the [concentration...
German authorities haled the immigrants into court and gave them each a suspended sentence of ten days for illegal entry. But, said a Munich police officer, "we have no prejudice, least of all against these poor people." From Israel, which is now losing more settlers than it is taking in (34,000 have left to seek their fortunes elsewhere since Israel became a state), came harsher words. "Emigrants have no title to sympathy," said Finance Minister Levi Eshkol. "Those who found sufficient funds for sea passage could have done quite well here with the energy and money used to arrange...
This was the same Daladier who, along with Neville Chamberlain, spoke for Allied appeasement at Hitler's Munich. Daladier is not a Communist or even a Socialist; he is a member of the moderate, right-of-center Radical Socialists. And on the Indo-China question he spoke for many a Frenchman who would violently reject the label of appeaser...
...accept the views of some "enlightened Americans" that, in our present difficulties, the more experienced British public opinion should prevail over our own. The opinions expressed by Mr. Driberg go far to convince me that the British mind has not materially improved its clarity since the days of Munich...
...would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...