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Ti, 1974-23 Brandt's Anti Nazi Record Told in Prittie's Biography

The anti-Nazi position pur- aware of this burden . . . usual'. They may have' been
As an avowed enemy of
sued
by Brandt also led to Please believe me that the slightly embarassed, too:
the Nazis who consistently
anti-Semitiim was rife in
supported German compen- his interest in Israel, and his responsible people in my Poland before even the Na-
.tiff
country
have
tried
to
learn
visit
there
in
1960
developed
ti.
, sation to. the Jewish suffer- a closeness of attitudes which their lesson and base their zis set foot in the country,
4f#
ers, Willy Brandt has re-
actual and future work upon and did not end during a
tained a role of fairness and
the lessons of history .. . I post-war period in which the
a sense of justice. The em-
think we are not permitted Jewish population had sunk
phasis is in evidence in a
to forget in order to make it to a little more than 20,000.
noteworthy biography, "Willy
It may have hurt that Brandt
easier to forgive." •
Brandt: Portrait of a States-
was capable of 'an act of
One of Allied Van Lines Largest Haulers
An
especially
interesting
man" (Schocken), by Ter-
shattering simplicity'."
reference
to
the
Polish
Anti-
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Cole
Street
1300 N. Campbell Road
rence Prittie, one of the most
Because the Munich out-
Semitic trends is contained rage of 1973 had created an ,
Birmingham
prominent British foreign
Royal Oak
in this comment by the especially serious problem.
correspondents.
. MI 4-4613
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Brandt biographer:
Historic events covering
for Brandt, the Prittie view
"Paying a visit to the War- becomes additionally signif-
the Hitler era, the post-war
saw ghetto, to• lay a wreath icant. Here are the details
struggles for attainment of
at the ineanorial to the Jews outlined in this biography:
democratic principals in the
slaughtered there, Brandt
land that was terrorized by
"Brandt did what he could
spontaneously knelt for a to avert the tragedy. He tried
brutality are part of the dra-
moment, in that great empty to enlist the help of Arab
ma that marks the life of
space in which and round governments, including that ,
one of West Germany's most
which not .a Single Jewish of Egypt. He personally had
interesting personalities.
24 MONTH CLOSED - END LEASE
family lives any more. It a telephone call put through
Tracing Brandt's family
AIR, STEREO, P. WIND., ETC.
was a totally unrehearsed to Cairo, to ask, President
background, his illegitimacy,
(October and November OnlyII)
gesture; not one of his en-, Sadat whether, 'in' the event
his marriages, his political
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tourage expected it. Later of the hostages being flown
interests, his consistency in
WILLY
BRANDT
he said: 'I did not plan it, out at gun-point, Egypt would
opposing Hitlerism which
PHILLIP SCHOSTAK
brought him during the war is thus reported by Prittie: and I'm not ashamed of it.' accept them. Sadat was not
to Norway, forms a biogra-
In Tel Aviv he said: "A Ger- The Poles as one western prepared to lift a finger to
phy of immense interest. ,
man who speaks in Israel has diplomat observed, • tat up help. The West German gov-
AT
Brandt's attitudes in Com- to be aware of the terrible and took notice,, \they real- ernment contacted the Isra-
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the values in Prittie's eval-
rorists imprisoned by the
uating the historic develop-
Israelis. The Israelis pre-
ments that gave him a world
ferred active 'attempts to res-
"He
several
times
spoke
Wallace Markfield, author
role.
cue the captured athletes in •
of "You Could Live If They my name and for a tense Munich rather than to allow
Let You" (Alfred A. Knopf), time called me 'Xavier' on them to be flown to a terror=
drastically fails in his at- the grounds that 'all goyim ist • base, most probably in
tempts to write a humorous are anyway Irish.' "
Libya. The German author-
novel .about the mythical
The - book. is not a total dis- ities offered the terrorists a
Jules Farber, "the greatest aster — bits of Yiddish Delp plane to take them 'out of
stand-up comic in our time." save the otherwise tiresome the country if they surrend-
The chapters are present- text. Perhaps the main fault ered their nine captives.
ed in no orderly fashion and rests with Markfield trying They offered money, al-
begin to' be repetitious after to convince his readers that though the $5,000,000 paid
a brief period, with the his book is funny.
by the Lufthansa earlier_ in
You could live . . . without the year to Arab hijackers
"wit" continuing at a dull
and irritable pace. The book this book.
probably provided • the fi-
—Daniel Pesselnick nance for the Munich opera-
does not offer a complete
story — only fragments are
tion."
fed to the reader.
Prittie's biography is a.
Nations have been wrecked
The story is related by because they lacked an over- splendid account of the ac-
Chandler Van -Horton, an riding moral goal to which tivities Of one of the most
"apple - cheeked,' dewy - eyed individuals could commit noted men of this genaration.
goy," who followed Farber themselves. History shows us Students of the history of
until his "tragic death right that when we become success- this era are additionally
in the middle of the Ricky dominated; we lose sight of served by the material re-
searched for - this important
Shane Show."
our real reasons for living.
book.
—Louis
Finkelstein
Farber's loyal follower,
Horton, is described by the
comic as "the academic,
Yentas with facts, and the
goy, an Olivetti portable, a
one egg poacher, show
trees . . ."
Horton describes Farber
as the "beloved brother of
Mrs. Lillian Federman, not-
so-beloved husband of Mar-
lene, baffled 'son of his
hoo-hah-ing father 'and his
mother the fund raiser."
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