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...voiced "strongest indignation." Rabbi Stephen S. Wise's pro-Zionist monthly Opinion called the principles "nothing less than unbelievable . . . treasonable to the household of Israel." The Congress Weekly, organ of the pro-Zionist American Jewish Congress, accused the Houston congregation of composing "a set of 'Nürnberg laws' of their...
...back to British bases, wrecking an aircraft assembly plant in Bordeaux. All across Hitler's Europe the Allied airmen's campaign of destruction continued. At week's end it reached another climax. R.A.F. bombers staged a second saturation raid. This time they were over Nürnberg, vital railroad center, crowded factory city and Naziism's shrine. Inside of 45 minutes 1,500 tons of bombs poured down...
...across the continent. From German cities hundreds of night-fighter planes tried to intercept. Ack-ack fire in Berlin was light, but fighter resistance was savage and concentrated. The British Air Ministry reported that 58 of its bombers were shot down. The air battle over Nürnberg was described as the greatest air night battle of the war. The R.A.F. admitted losing 33 more planes...
...Marcel Peyrouton, hardboiled, flabby-jowled onetime sponsor of Vichy's version of the Nürnberg Laws and later Ambassador to Argentina, has been Giraud's chief political administrator. Peyrouton has done a good job under his new masters...
...been to Britons who had been hardened in bitterness and vengeance by the Luftwaffe's blitzes. But bitterness and anger, even if they balanced fraying nerves, could not undo the destruction. Munich's twin-spired Frauenkirche might be wrecked, Hans Sachs's Nürnberg gone forever, Stuttgart's fine baroque palaces burned out, but there was another score, and Germans knew more of it than the British told...