Against Our Better Judgement: End Notes by Alison Weir

 Against Our Better Judgement: End Notes by Alison Weir

[259] For some of their violence against Jews and others in Palestine, see Mark A
Raider, “Irresponsible, Undisciplined Opposition: Ben Halpern on the Bergson Group and Jewish
Terrorism in Pre-State Palestine,” American Jewish History 92.3 (2004), 313-60.
[260] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 114-115.
[261] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 219-220.
Judah Magnes, a Reform rabbi, favored a binational state in which Jews and Palestinians would
coexist in friendly relations.
[262] William D. Rubinstein, The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not
Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis (London: Routledge, 1997), 97.
[263] Rubinstein, Myth of Rescue, 98.
[264] Robert N. Rosen, Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust
(New York: Thunder’s Mouth, 2006), 32.
[265] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 261. See also Rubinstein, Myth of Rescue, 98.
[266] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 174.
[267] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 274.
[268] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 123.
[269] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 258-259.
[270] Medoff, Militant Zionism, 186.
[271] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 225.
[272] “Israel Independence Day: The Balfour Declaration,” RavKookTorah.org,
accessed January 1, 2014, http://www.ravkooktorah.org/YOM_ATZMAUT_66.htm.
[273] “Time line for Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook,” RavKookTorah.org,
accessed January 1, 2014, http://www.ravkooktorah.org/timeline.htm.
“Israel Independence Day: The Balfour Declaration,” RavKookTorah.org, accessed February 9,
2014, http://ravkooktorah.org/YOM_ATZMAUT_66.htm.
Jay Levinson, “House of HaRav Avraham Yitzchak Kook,” Jewish Magazine, March 2006,
http://www.jewishmag.com/100mag/kook/kook.htm.
Kabbala is also spelled: Cabbala, Cabala, Kabala.
Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (London: Pluto, 1999),
ix, xiii, 55-69.
Professors Shahak and Mezvinsky emphasize that writings in English intentionally obscure many
facts. “The role of Satan, whose earthly embodiment according to the Cabbala is every non-Jew, has
been minimized or not mentioned by authors who have not written about the Cabbala in Hebrew.”
(Shahak and Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism, 58)
“According to the Lurianic Cabbala, the world was created solely for the sake of Jews; the

existence of non-Jews was subsidiary.”
Dr. Israel Shahak, was a holocaust survivor and, until his death in 2001, a highly regarded Israeli
professor of biochemistry; Dr. Norton Mezvinsky was a professor of history (now retired) who in
2002 was named by the Connecticut State University Board of Trustees an official “Connecticut State
University Professor...a signal honor, reserved for faculty members who fulfill the highest ideals of
outstanding teaching, scholarly achievement and public service.”
Another important book on this subject matter, by Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion:
the Weight of Three Thousand Years (London: Pluto, 1997) can be read at
http://ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/shahak.html.
[274] Shahak and Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism, 55-69.
[275] Shahak and Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism, ix.
Allan C. Brownfeld, review of Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, by Israel Shahak and Norton
Mezvinsky, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs March (2000): 105-06. Print. Online at
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/rel-jfund.html.
[276] Baumel, The “Bergson Boys,” 256.
[277] Korff had emigrated to the U.S. in 1926 from the Ukraine. San Francisco’s Jewish
Weekly reports that he “was a link in an unbroken chain of rabbis in his family that dated back to the
11th century scholar Rashi. Another ancestor was the Baal Shem Tov, the 18 th century founder of the
Chassidic Movement.”-
Avi V. Stieglitz, “Baruch Korff, ‘Nixon‘s Rabbi‘ and Activist, Dies of Cancer at 81.” JWeekly,
August 4, 1995. Print. Online at
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/1382/baruch-korff-nixon-s-rabbi-and-activist-dies-of-
cancer-at-81/.
[278] Medoff, Militant Zionism, 164.
“The Bergson Group: A History in Photographs,” David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies ,
accessed December 19, 2013,
http://wymaninstitute.org/special/bergsonexhibit/leadership5.php.
[279] Medoff, Militant Zionism, 165.
[280] Medoff, Militant Zionism, 166.
[281] Medoff, Militant Zionism, 166.
[282] Neil Tweedie and Peter Day, “Jewish Groups Plotted to Kill Bevin,” Telegraph,
May 22, 2003. Print. Online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1430766/Jewish-groups-plotted-to-
kill-Bevin.html.
“MI5 Feared Zionist Air Raid Plan for London,” The Journal (Northumberland), May 22, 2003,
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/MI5+feared+Zionist+air+raid+plan+for+London.-a0102133325.
“Possible Jewish Terrorist Attempts to Assassinate Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary,” UK

Government Official Archives, October 31, 1945 - August 17, 1946,
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C11602817?uri=C11602817-details.
Download at
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/image/Index/C11602817.
[283] “French Arresting Irgun, Sternist Aides After Exposure of Alleged Plot to Bomb
London,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 8, 1947,
http://www.jta.org/1947/09/08/archive/french-arresting-irgun-sternist-aides-after-exposure-of-
alleged-plot-to-bomb-london.
[284] Information on this section comes from news reports from the time, a UN report
which seems to have disappeared from the UN archives, a first-person account written by Gilbert
himself distributed by the New York Herald Tribune, and Gilbert‘s unpublished memoir. He also
discussed it with the author by phone and in person in 2012.
“Timeline of Zionist Terror,” UN Report Prepared in 1948 for Ralph Bunche, New UN
Commissioner to Palestine (New York: October 1, 1948), accessed January 1, 2014,
http://www.al-nakba-history.com/origins1948/unterrorismchronology.html.
[285] Unpublished memoir by Reginald Gilbert, 118-127.
“Flyer Credited With Expose of Bombing Plans,” Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD) September 9,
1947, 1. Print. Online at
http://newspaperarchive.com/hagerstown-daily-mail/1947-09-09/.
The Stern Gang, also called Stern Group or Lehi, formally Lohamei Herut Yisr a ʾ el (Hebrew:
“Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”), was a Zionist terrorist organization founded in 1940 by
Avraham Stern after a split in the Irgun. The Encyclopaedia Britannica reports: “Extremely anti-
British, the group repeatedly attacked British personnel in Palestine and even invited aid from the
Axis powers.”
“Stern Gang,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed January 1, 2014,
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/565756/Stern-Gang.
[286] UP, “French Judge Weighs Bomb Plot,” Lima News (Lima, OH), September 8,
1947, 1. Print. Online at http://newspaperarchive.com/lima-news/1947-09-08/.
AP, “Hold Rabbi for Questioning in ‘Leaflet Bombing’ Plot,” Schenectady Gazette, September 9,
1940, 1. Print. Online at
http://news.google.com/newspapers?
nid=1917&dat=19470909&id=9EohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gYEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3436,984641.
AP, “Yank Flyer Reveals Stern Gang Hired Him to Drop Bombs on British Foreign Office,” St.
Petersburg Times, September 10, 1947, 1. Print. Online at http://news.google.com/newspapers?
nid=888&dat=19470910&id=8VtIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3E4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2421,4272387.
A.A.P. and Argus correspondent, “US pilot told police of bomb plot, was asked to raid London,”
The Argus (Melbourne), September 9, 1947, 1. Print. Online at

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22506150.
[287] A.A.P. “Jewish Terror plot Unearthed,” Sydney Morning Herald, September 8,
1947, 1. Print. Online at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18042464.
David Perlman, “U.S. War Ace Foiled Plot to Bomb London,” New York Herald Tribune, 1947.
[288] Reginald Gilbert, “St. Louis Pilot Tells How and Why He Foiled Plot to Bomb
London,” New York Herald Tribune, September 9, 1947.
Gilbert, unpublished memoir. Personal interview with author.
[289] “1947:Stern Gang Foiled : In our Pages:100, 75 And 50 Years Ago,” New York
Times, September 9, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/09/opinion/09iht-edold.t_20.html
[290] UP, “Jews Say Bomb Plot Was British Frameup,” Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon,
PA), September 11, 1947, 17. Print. Online at
http://newspaperarchive.com/lebanon-daily-news/1947-09-10/page-17.
[291] “Early Release of Rabbi Korff Expected in Paris; U.S. Embassy Makes No Official
Move,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 18, 1947,
http://archive.jta.org/article/1947/09/18/3011591/early-release-of-rabbi-korff-expected-in-paris-us-
embassy-makes-no-official-move.
[292] “Question Authenticity Police Version of Plot,” Canadian Jewish Chronicle,
September 26, 1947, 4. Print. Online at
http://news.google.com/newspapers?
nid=883&dat=19470926&id=jQFPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jEwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=904,4915328.
[293] “Zionists Plotted IRA-style Terrorism,” Times (London), May 22, 2003,
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article1908776.ece.
[294] A.A.P. “Release of Rabbi Sought,” Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), September 10,
1947, 1. Print. Online at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/35998232.
Medoff, Militant Zionism, 170. Medoff‘s account only mentions the part of the plan to do with
dropping pamphlets. He omits any mention of Gilbert and of the attempted assassination aspect of the
plot.
[295] “Rabbi Jacob Israel Korff,” Find a Grave, accessed January 1, 2014,
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=110684672.
“Grand Rabbi Jacob Israel Korff: The Zviller Rebbe,” Paul Gass Family website, accessed
January 1, 2014, http://www.paulgassfamily.com/section3/iii1/iii1_001.htm.
[296] Stevens, American Zionism, 192.
[297] Eric Pace, “Baruch Korff, 81, Rabbi and Defender of Nixon,” New York Times ,
July 27, 1995, http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/27/obituaries/baruch-korff-81-rabbi-and-defender-
of-nixon.html.
[298] Stieglitz, “Baruch Korff, ‘Nixon‘s Rabbi‘ and Activist, Dies of Cancer at 81.”
“...Korff had many supporters in high places in Israel, including Yitzhak Rabin and the formidable
Golda Meir. As the Israeli Prime Minister during the Yom Kippur war of 1973 she was immensely

grateful to Nixon, with whom she struck up an unlikely though fateful friendship, for the giant
American airlift which helped to turn defeat into victory.”
Joseph Finkelstone, “Obituaries: Rabbi Baruch Korff,” Independent (UK), August 3, 1995,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-rabbi-baruch-korff-1594514.html.
[299] Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1976), 101.
[300] AP, “Rabbi Korff Announces Retirement from Nixon Fund,” Spartanburg Herald-
Journal, May 29, 1975, 12. Print. Online at
http://news.google.com/newspapers?
nid=1876&dat=19750529&id=f5QeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HcwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7086,5202171.
[301] Stieglitz, “Baruch Korff, ‘Nixon‘s Rabbi‘ and Activist, Dies of Cancer at 81.”
[302] Finkelstone, “Obituaries: Rabbi Baruch Korff.”
Others also note Korff‘s access to powerful leaders:
Henry Morgenthau, Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History (New York: Ticknor & Fields,
1991). Excerpt online at
http://www.paulgassfamily.com/section3/iii3/iii3_003.htm#_ftnref5.
Morgenthau calls Korff a “wily expediter,” writing: “At a very early age Rabbi Korff had gained
the ear and confidence of many prominent American politicians, winning special access to
Congressman John McCormack of Massachusetts (then House majority leader, later Speaker) and
Senator James M. Mead of New York (the best man at Korff‘s wedding).”
Prominent columnist Mary McGrory described an event in 1978 attended by generals and high-
ranking US Senators.
Mary McGrory, “Return Engagement for Rabbi Korff,” St. Petersburg Times , March 1, 1978, 12.
Print. Online at
http://news.google.com/newspapers?
nid=888&dat=19780301&id=oTYpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s1kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2729,94958.
[303] Leonard Slater, The Pledge (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970), 21-23.
Smith, Declassified Deceptions, Chapter 4.
[304] Slater, Pledge, 23.
[305] Slater, Pledge, 24.
[306] Smith, Declassified Deceptions, 63.
An active supporter of the United Jewish Appeal in the 1940s describes raising money for
weapons: “Any contributions that were made had to be made in cash… It was a sort of a hush-hush
operation because it was not entirely legal.”
“Ties that Bind: Washington Area Jews and the Birth of the State of Israel,” Jewish Historical
Society of Greater Washington, accessed January 1, 2014,

http://www.jhsgw.org/israel60/slideshow/secret-meetings.php.
“Local members of the clandestine Sonneborn Institute held secret meetings to raise money for a
Jewish state and its underground army, the Haganah.”
“Securing the Dream,” Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, accessed January 1,
2014, http://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/jewishwashington/exhibition/securing-the-dream.
The local Zionist youth group, Habonim, helped load weapons onto ships.
“Ties that Bind: Washington Area Jews and the Birth of the State of Israel,” Jewish Historical
Society of Greater Washington, accessed January 1, 2014,
http://www.jhsgw.org/israel60/slideshow/habonim-march.php.
Habonim camps are still active today, with seven summer camps across Canada and the US, an
Israel summer program, and a year-long program based in Israel. See https://www.habonimdror.org.
[307] Smith, Declassified Deceptions, 37.
R.H. Hillenkoetter, “Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense: Subject: Clandestine Air
Transport Operations,” Central Intelligence Agency, May 28, 1948. Print. Online at
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000655104.pdf.
[308] Smith, Declassified Deceptions, 37.
Grant Smith also covers these groups in detail in his book, Spy Trade: How Israel’s Lobby
Undermines America’s Economy (Washington D.C.: IRMEP, 2008). Smith writes: “The
organizations and individuals in the Sonneborn Institute‘s network all engaged in legitimate charitable
activities as well as theft and smuggling. This cover and connection to elites involved across U.S.
politics, business, and government made it a difficult target for law enforcement.” (Smith, Spy Trade,
25)
Smith reports that while a few operatives were imprisoned or fined for their activities, “…none of
the truly ‘big fish’ of the Sonneborn arms smuggling network were ever indicted.” Henry Montor, the
person who organized the first meeting, headed up the United Jewish Appeal and later founded the
Israel Bond organization. (Smith, Spy Trade, 24)
William Levitt of the famous “Levittown“ housing development, gave the Haganah a million
dollars interest-free loan to buy fighter aircraft from Czechoslovakia was never prosecuted for
violating the Neutrality Act. (Smith, Spy Trade, 24)
Smith reports that the only person to serve an appropriate prison sentence was posthumously
pardoned by President George W. Bush after intense lobbying by Steven Spielberg and others.
(Smith, Spy Trade, 25)
[309] New York Times, August 10, 1961. Conversion was done using Areppin calculator:
http://stats.areppim.com/calc/calc_usdlrxdeflxcpi.php
[310] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 9.
[311] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 9.
[312] The first survey among Jewish survivors found that 65 percent indicated that they
wished to return home, 20 percent wished to go to the US, and 15 percent desired to go to Palestine.

(Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 41) The Mossad commander was Ze’ev Schind, alias
“Danny.” (Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 48)
[313] Lilienthal, What Price Israel, 148-150.
[314] “Jewish Brigade Group,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed
January 1, 2014, http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005275.
[315] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 49.
[316] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 50.
[317] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 50. Citation: “An interview with Ms. Fanny
Tirosh (Yossie Peled‘s and Sarah Gutman’s sister), an addendum to ha-Mifgash (The Encounter),
Tel-Aviv: Daniela Dinnur, pp. 115-116, 1993. An appendix contains attestations by Peled and his
sisters, and of the daughter of the adopting Belgian who had saved them.”
[318] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 50-51.
[319] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 52.
[320] Baruch Kimmerling, “Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom.” The Nation, January 10,
2005. Online at
http://www.thenation.com/article/israels-culture-martyrdom?page=full.
Zertal, Idith. Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2005, 51
[321] Baruch Kimmerling, “Israel’s Culture of Martyrdom.” The Nation, January 10, 2005. Online
at
http://www.thenation.com/article/israels-culture-martyrdom?page=full.
This was not the only such case that has been somewhat misrepresented in Zionist propaganda.
Two hundreds Jewish refugees aboard another such ship, the Patria, died when Jewish forces placed
a bomb under the hull to disable the ship. – Charles Smith, 115.
[322] Grodzinsky, 226.
[323] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 199, 203.
[324] Grodzinsky, Shadow of the Holocaust, 210.
[325] Grodzinsky Shadow of the Holocaust, 212-214.
[326] Segev, Seventh Million, 34.
[327] Grose, Mind of America, 207-210.
Sir Frederick Morgan described the situation in detail in a chapter of his autobiography, “A
‘Displaced Person’ in Post-War Germany,” in Peace and War: A Soldier’s Life (London: Hodder
and Stoughton, 1961), 234-38, 243-62. Excerpted in Khalidi, Haven To Conquest, 527-548.
Morgan reported that “the admirably organized Zionist command was employing any and every
means of forcing immigration into the country irrespective of the hardship and sufferings of the
immigrants, few of whom seemed to have any spontaneous enthusiasm for the Zionist cause.”

(Morgan, “Displaced Person,” 533) Morgan described the “consummate skill” with which the Zionist
organizations pushed their propaganda, and noted that Eddie Cantor had announced in a full page ad
in the New York Times that Morgan was “no less than a reincarnation of the late A. Hitler.” (Morgan,
“Displaced Person,” 532)
[328] Grose, Mind of America, 177.
[329] Grose, Mind of America, 178-182.
[330] For details, see The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe and Under the
Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians by Rosemarie M. Esber.
[331] Neff, Pillars, 68.
[332] Neff, Pillars, 69.
Transjordan’s entire government budget at the time was only $5 million.
[333] Neff, Pillars, 69.
[334] Neff, Pillars, 72. Neff, Pillars, 72. Currency conversion:
http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm.
[335] Anders Strindberg, “Forgotten Christians,” American Conservative, May 24, 2004,
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2004/may/24/00013/.
[336] Interestingly, Truman had hoped for what is today called the “one state solution.”
According to Grose, on the day that Israel declared itself a state and Truman provided it immediate
recognition, Truman wrote to a friend: “The correct solution” would be a single state in which Jews
and Arabs would share power. He continued, “and, I think, eventually we are going to get it worked
out just that way.”
Peter Grose, “Truman and Israel,” Moment 8, no. 6 (June 1983): 19. Online at
http://search.opinionarchives.com/Summary/Moment/V8I6P13-1.htm.
[337] Neff, Pillars, 75.
[338] Neff, Pillars, 76-77. Citation: George McGhee, Envoy to the Middle World:
Adventures in Diplomacy (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 37.
[339] Richard D. McKinzie, “Oral History Interview with Edwin M. Wright,” The
interview was conducted in Wooster, Ohio on July 26, 1974. On April 3, 1977, Wright added a letter
and footnotes to the interview. Online at
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/wright.htm.
[340] Stevens, American Zionism, 207.
[341] Christison, Perceptions, 38.
[342] Christison, Perceptions, 40.
[343] Neff, Pillars, 67.
[344] Neff, Pillars, 72-73.

A notable exception were the reports by Anne O’Hare McCormick, a Pulitzer Prize winning
foreign news correspondent for the New York Times , who reported that “[Israel] is born at the
expense of another people now fated to join the ragged ranks of the displaced” and, in another
reported, noted that “no one [in Israel] has expressed any sense of responsibility or sympathy for
these wretched victims.”
[345] Lilienthal, What Price Israel, 94.
[346] Lilienthal, What Price Israel, 103.
[347] Lilienthal, What Price Israel, 94.
[348] Christison, Perceptions, 80-81.
[349] Lilienthal, What Price Israel, 96-97.
[350] Lilienthal, What Price Israel, 97-98.
[351] Millar Burrows, Palestine Is Our Business (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1949), 11.
[352] Burrows, Palestine Is Our Business, 11-12.
[353] Burrows, Palestine Is Our Business, 63.
[354] Burrows, Palestine Is Our Business, 75.
[355] Burrows, Palestine Is Our Business, 131.
[356] Burrows, Palestine Is Our Business, 91.
[357] Burrows, Palestine Is Our Business, 154.
[358] Burrows, Palestine Is Our Business, 155.
[359] Lilienthal, What Price Israel, 97-98.
[360] Lilienthal, What Price Israel, 97.
[361] Berger, Memoirs, 35-38.
Dean Gildersleeve, a Protestant Christian, had been the only woman member of the U.S. UN
delegation in San Francisco. For more information on her see:
“Who was Virginia Gildersleeve?” Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund, accessed
December 20, 2013, http://www.vgif.org/a_vg.shtml.
Rosalind Rosenberg, “Virginia Gildersleeve: Opening the Gates,” Living Legacies (Columbia
University), accessed January 1, 2014,
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Summer2001/Gildersleeve.html.
[362] Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Many a Good Crusade: Memoirs of (New
York: Macmillan, 1955), 187.
[363] Merkley, Christian Attitudes, 7.
[364] Gildersleeve, Many a Good Crusade, 412.
[365] “Dorothy Thompson,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, accessed January 1, 2014,

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/592960/Dorothy-Thompson.
[366] The information from this section comes largely from American Cassandra: The Life of
Dorothy Thompson by Peter Kurth, “Remembering Dorothy Thompson“ by Peter Kurth (online at
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/media/dthompson.html), Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in her Time
by Marion K. Sanders, Personal History by Vincent Sheean, Dorothy & Red (Dorothy Thompson &
Sinclair Lewis) by Vincent Sheean, and Elmer Berger‘s Memoirs, 62-70. See also
http://thesilencing.org/.
[367] Sands of Sorrow, produced by Council for the Relief of Palestine Arab Refugees, narrated
by Dorothy Thompson, 1950, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6lIsl-pHU. Also available at
http://www.archive.org/details/sands_of_sorrow.
[368] Kurth, American Cassandra, 384.
[369] Kurth, American Cassandra, 384.
[370] “The Press: Free Speech for the Boss,” Time, November 17, 1958, accessed January 1,
2014, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810661,00.html.
[371] Kurth, American Cassandra, 383.
[372] A nonprofit organization is currently working on a film on Thompson, which they hope to
release in 2014 or 15. See http://thesilencing.org/.
[373] George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949), 88.
Interestingly, a biographer states: “In his last years, unlike several of his comrades around
Tribune, Orwell had little sympathy with Zionism and opposed the creation of the state of Israel, as
attested by his friend and Tribune colleague Tosco Fyvel in his book George Orwell: A Personal
Memoir.”
“George Orwell Biography,” Orwell Web, accessed January 1, 2014,
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/george-orwell-biography.htm.
Another discussion is here: http://evenements.univ-lille3.fr/colloque-george-
orwell/abstracts/samedi-09h30.pdf.