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Confessions of the World’s Greatest Interviewer
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The nearer one comes to the mathe
matician type the less frequently
does one encounter departures from
truth; but I must say that I do
not count bankers in this category.
In order to get the truth from a
subject it is not so much his words
that the interviewer should rely
on as his tone and the circumstances
in which he is speaking. Expres
sion, smile and gestures reveal cer
tain truths that the subject might
wish to conceal.
in conclusion I must relate the
most curious incident in my career
as an interviewer. One day I re
ceived a visit from a French author,
a member of the Academic Fran-
eaiso, a most charming and clever
man, but very reserved on political
Jewish History
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In Mexico ( ity, where Jewish busi
ness men are gradually adjusting
themselves, Jewish life flourished.
Attacks on Jews, inspired by
Nazi propagandists and native agi
tators, were frequent in the news-
pajK-rs of Peru, Argentina, Brazil
and Cuba. In Brazil the anti-
Semitic Green Shirts were dissolved,
while in Argentina the police chief
of Buenos Aires was dismissed for
accusing tlu* Jews of being Com
munists. Two Jewish editors were
arrested for treason in Cuba.
Despite the emergence of anti-
Semitic movements, which prompt
ed the American Jewish congress
to appoint an investigation com
mission, the Jews of Latin America
passed a year that can be best de
scribed as a period of pioneering.
Filtering into countries where there
have never been more than a hand
ful of Jews, Latin American Jewry
showed genuine signs of becom
ing one of the largest sections of
world Jewry.
POL. LVD
Boland must be listed as the
country in which the physical ex
ist (-nee of the Jews was in greater
danger last year than in any other
country of the world, not even ex
cluding Germany. Years of con
sistent and systematic economic
strangulation, condoned and abet
ted by the government, were cli
maxed last year by an organized
wave ot terror. 1 ho National
Democrats (Ludcks'i, no longer
afraid of political retaliation by
the government, lot loose organized
hordes of hooligans in tlie cities,
towns and villages who carried out
pogroms reminiscent of the san
guinary days of Czarist Russia.
Hardly a day passed without some
act of anti-Semitic violence being
reported from Poland. Literally
thousands of Jews suffered physical
injuries at the hands of anti-Semitic
rioters, while the death toll from
the same source was estimated
to be nearly 100. Improving on
the usual technique of anti-Semitic
assaults, the Endeks last year in
questions. I thought he was afraid
of my divulging his views, which
was, in fact, not far from my in
tentions. However, in order t<>
reassure him and to emphasize tin
private character of our conversa
tion 1 plunged into a long speech
and talked a great deal more than
usual.
A little later 1 found in my Paru
post a French newspaper contain
ing an article by the author in
question, in which the interview
was described at great length and
my political opinions faithfully re
corded. In short, tlie man whom
I thought was afraid of me as an
interviewer proved more cunning
than I, and interviewed me with
out my knowledge.
in the Making
eluded bombings in their reper
toire; hundreds of buildings owned
by Jews were destroyed or dam
aged by incendiary explosions.
The March pogroms in Przytyk
marked a new high in anti-Semitic
violence even for Poland. Panic-
stricken Jews fled the district, while
hundreds of others hid for days in
cellars and behind barricaded doors.
The cruel irony of this particular
pogrom was evidenced by the
arrest and subsequent conviction
of Przytyk Jews charged with
having killed a Polish peasant in
defending themselves. The trial
of the Ft Przytyk Jews and B>
Poles at Radorn was a sensation.
After weeks of hearings the Poles
accused of murdering two Jews
were let otf with mild prison terms,
while 11 of the Jews received long
sentences.
The tragic aspect of the l'olish-
Jewish situation could best be
gauged in the sad yet true fact
that even these pogroms failed to
arouse world Jewry to effective
relief action or political protests.
While the Jews in Poland orgai izeil
a number of effective general strikes
as protests against the anti-Semitic
terror, world Jewry as a whole
stood by meekly attempting petty
measures of charity and still more
timid gestures of political,action.
The sensational attempt to out
law sheehita and the last-minute
compromise that enabled the Jews
to continue sheehita at the sacri
fice of seeing another 10,000 Jews
deprived of their livelihood; the
serious discussion in governmental
circles of proposals for the mass
emigration of at least a million
Jews; the frantic efforts of the
Jews to emigrate to Palestine,
Latin America and Birobidjan; the
efforts to establish ghetto regula
tions in the universities and the
railroads; the organized anti-Jew ish
boycott movement in Lemberg.
Lodz, Upper Silesia and Cracow-
all these graphically revealed the
desperate straits of the three million
Jews of Poland.
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