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A Jew, Rubinstein did not wait for the Nazis to throw him out of Germany. During World War I he was deeply shocked by the German treatment of Belgians and Poles. He vowed then that he would never play in Germany again, has never done so.
When the curtain rises on the post-war world the scene may be something like this: 6,000,000 German soldiers fleeing in disorder; 5,000,000 foreign workers and prisoners of war abandoning Germany; 2,000,000 Hungarian, Rumanian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers pouring home from the Eastern front...
It is a paradox, if you will, that a free society must protect within these limits those who oppose the fundamental premise on which this society is founded. Yet, to my mind, this paradox is a necessity which springs from the choice between the two conceptions of human ethics as...
Great baking ovens occupy one side of the room. Reaching the ceiling, their great tile fronts seem to glower over the whole room. They are heated to a tremendous temperature by gas jets, and when they are opened, the narrow tile inner ovens are incandescant with heat. "Peel poles" 12...
Upshot was that Finston, who has no Polish blood and speaks not a Polish word, wrote to the Polish Embassy at Washington, applied for a Polish Army commission. Last week he prepared to set out for Scotland, to be a lieutenant with the Poles. His program: learn the ropes, then...