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From A Reporter's Notebook
PARIS—Every reporter has
his ear tuned to pick up good
quotes. Individually, the re
marks might not make a good
story, but they do contribute
color to any article. And often
a few words from the “man
in the street” can. pinpoint the
mood, background, opinions
and cqncise definition of what
is happening in the country
the journalist is visiting.
Sometimes the comments I
heard on my latest swing
through Europe were routine:
sometimes shocking.
Take, for example, an intel
ligent, Portuguese teacher who
asked: “Franklin Roosevelt,
the President. Wasn’t he a
Jew?”
Few in Europe believe that
Lee Harvey Oswald was alone
when he allegedly assassinat
ed President John F. Kennedy,
There was a conspiracy of the
Left or the Right, depending
on your own political think
ing.
But from the same Portu
guese teacher: “My friend who
studied political science has
advanced the theory, well,
that, after all, President John
son was the only one to bene
fit from the assassination.”
What do Europeans think of
the late President? One ex
ample will give you a clue:
“He was the greatest Presi
dent America ever had,” said
a French businessman in Mar
seilles.
In Spain, there are about
5,000 Jews in a total popula
tion of 29 million persons. A
Spanish Jew tells you: “We
are trying to maintain Jewish
life on a small island in a
fiercely Catholic sea.”
And a foreign correspondent
based in Madrid adds: “The
Jewish people in Spain are
safe as long as they don’t rock
the boat.”
In a cage in Madrid’s Ave-
nida Jose Antonio (The Grand
Via) an Israeli vacationing in
Spain observes: “I don’t know,
the boys in Israel tell me:
‘Why go to Spain. It’s a fas
cist country!’ But I say, in
Spain, the people don’t push;
they live. P’or me there is no
fascism here. I’m not a politi
cian. I just look at the people
and they are happy.”
In Algiers, an Arab who
fought in the F.L.N. describes
President Ben Bella thusly:
“He’s like a certain kind of
driver at the wheel of a car.
He’s holding on tight, but he
community leaders in Europe
some will disclose: “There’s
no anti-Semitism here.” From
their additional comments and
observations, I got the impres
sion that the only place anti-
Semitism exists is in the
United States.
An Algerian Jew, now liv
ing in France, comments that
“every young Frenchman
want to go to America.” And
some Frenchmen sing the
words to the West Side Story
number, “I Want To Go To
America.”
You always thought you
looked like an American, so
as a tourist you are pleased
when someone tells you dif
ferently: “Are you Yugoslav?”
a waitress asks you in a cafe
in Algiers. “No,” “Well,” she
answers, “there are a lot of
Yugoslavs, Poles and Czechs
here.” There’s a good story in
that response, your reporter’s
instinct tells you.
In Madrid, after a year of
study in Spain, an American
college student offers the fol
lowing: “If you don’t sit on
the Spaniards, they’ll run all
over you. Spain needs a good
strong hand.” Later the stu
dent added: “Spain doesn't
need a democracy, she would
not know how to handle it."
The same student repeats
the most often-heard tourist
comment in the Europe of
1964: “The Spanish are about
the friendliest and nicest peo
ple in Europe. And it’s cheap
there, too.”
“Hava Nagila" is a hit on
Spanish resort juke boxes.
A non-Jewish foreign cor
respondent in Madrid, noting
that the Spanish Jewish Com
munity is composed of mainly
Sepharadim rather than Ash
kenazim, recalls: “I went to
several Bar Mitzvahs here and
I’ll tell you they are not the
same as the ones I attended
in Brooklyn.”
An American doctor at Beni-
Messous hospital, outside of
Algiers, said he came here to
work for a month in CARE's
Med i c o program “because I
wanted to do something where
money played no part and
not worry about the monetary
aspects of medicine. 1 wanted
to return to the Hippocratic
oath.”
And here’s a quote just pick
ed up in Paris. A former Aus
trian Jew describing how one
emperor gave Jews a certain
amount of freedom said: “You
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know, there’s always a Lin-
When interviewing Jewish coin somewhere.”
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