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...SEEN THE WIND? (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). This U.N. case history explores the plight of a family of stateless refugees who have spent twelve years on a freighter because no country will accept them. Maria Schell, Edward G. Robin son, Stanley Baker and Theodore Bikel are the stars...
Until the government rules in her case, Mrs. Eitani remains a lady in the dark about whether she is Israeli, German, Polish or stateless. Her children have been jeered at, and Orthodox Nazarenes have passed out handbills warning against "the Gentile in our midst." On principle, however, she refuses to make a public act of conversion while the controversy continues. "I have no other religion but Judaism," she says. "How can I say that I'm not a Jew now? I would be denying my past...
...nationalization measures as a shabby trick to strip the Indian community of its property with no compensation at all. Nor is Burma's treatment of its Indian minority an isolated case. In Ceylon, where nearly 700,000 Indian plantation workers and tradesmen live as "stateless persons," the regime has launched a "Ceylonization of trade" campaign. And what that might very well mean is yet another mass exodus of Indians...
...pogrom had been inspired by the assassination of German Diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a 17-year-old stateless Jew named Hershel Grynszpan.* It was, Joseph Goebbels told Hitler, a propaganda opportunity equal to that of the Reichstag fire. Hitler agreed, and the Storm Troopers were released for their "spontaneous" action, while regular police turned their backs. Both German television networks last week filled their peak viewing hours with programs mercilessly reminding Germans of what they had allowed to happen. Leading newspapers devoted entire pages to recollecting in detail the horrors of Kristallnacht...
White Chief. In 1946, when he was 26, Polish-born Rachman had arrived in Britain virtually penniless and possessing a stateless person's passport. At first, he found postwar Britain a bleak place. His English was poor, and he labored as kitchen helper, insurance agent and black marketeer. He made his bid for fortune in the early 1950s by borrowing $2,500 to buy a lodging house near London's Harrow Road. The house cost so little because seven of its eight rooms were occupied by tenants protected by rent control and immune from eviction. Rachman rented...