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presentation on the ciphers using lantern slides,
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Popular American magazines portrayed Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe as a “Jewish Invasion,” a threat to the jobs of whites, with the Russian Jew said to be especially conniving thanks to his “nervous, restless ambition.”
This sounds a lot like the rhetoric about the immigrants from south and Central America.
It was hard enough for William—a credentialed scientist, a genetics Ph.D.—to get credit for the work. He and Elizebeth may have decided it would be doubly hard to convince Fabyan to share credit with her, too.
“Home does not entail a spotless kitchen and a faultless parlor,” William wrote. “Home does entail the presence of hearts that beat in unison—whether the shelter be a hovel or a palace.”
Truth
the successes of Jewish immigrants provoking ugly responses.
It was a time of protests, marches, fantasies of revolution. Right-wing parties and radicals on the continent found inspiration in Nazism.
A group of Paraguayan officers formed a secret lodge, the Frente de Guerra, to organize an ultra right-wing revolution; their motto was “Discipline, Hierarchy, Order.”
Party of law and order
These men cared mainly about ideology, not competence, and even when they made a rare exception, they were overruled by other fanatical organs of the Nazi state.
“Zionism is only one of many virulent forms of a detestable disease known as ‘nationalism,’ ” William wrote to Barbara.
“The sooner we realize that we are all God’s children regardless of color, race, creed, nationality, etc., the better for all nations and the world as a whole.”
You get older and want to connect to the people who understand. You try to speak with the young and find that something is wrong with your ears. They use their own slang, their own code, and you start to feel nostalgic about your former enemies, who at least shared the same intense moment on earth and spoke words you could understand.
