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Journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees VOLUME 1 No.7 JULY 2001 le journal ^ Association of Jewish Refugees A worthy heir to Beaverbrook? ^n 1899, on the eve of the the Daily Mail and the Daily Express. UK newspaper readership has Spanish-American War, the US For reasons quite unconnected to shrunk and that any gimmick, 'Newspaper magnate Randolph party politics the Express has however meretricious, that halts ^^arst informed one of his recently been more in the business this decline is to be welcomed. Employees that he was sending him of making news than reporting it. Secondly, the battle to dominate the ^ Cuba as a war correspondent, This has a lot to do with the middle-range newspaper market has "^ar correspondent?" asked the personality of its new proprietor, so far been going overwhelmingly in •^^Porter incredulously. "But there is Richard Desmond, who apparently favour of the Daily Mail. That paper ^^ War in Cuba!" "You produce your amassed his considerable fortune as is politically so inflexibly partisan deports", replied Hearst "and I'll that boosting the circulation of the Produce the war." hitherto ailing Daily Express is ^his anecdote came to mind diuing actually a service to democracy, '^^ General Election campaign because it prevents the emergence ^hen the Labour Party complained of a monopoly news provider in the ^hat the BBC, ITV and Sky were intermediate sphere between the Actually making the news instead of broadsheets and the tabloid press. Simply reporting it. Earlier that There is much heartsearching Same week the unsavoury media nowadays about the disengagement, ^coon Silvio Berlusconi had especially of the younger "ecoine Prime Minister of Italy (a generation, from the political ^^y EU state with the fifth largest process. (On 7 June only 59% of the ^'^onomy in the world.) It is an electorate bothered to vote). If .^fortunate, but apparently Rupert Murdoch Desmond's formula can prop up the "^^scapable, fact of modem life that a 'pom merchant'. Since Desmond Express by turning celebrity- ^coons can use their financial clout also happens to be a Jew - the second obsessed young people into regular ^ acquire news media and influence co-religionist to dabble in media middle-range newspaper readers, '^^blic opinion. Sometimes, tycoonery since the late unlamented this may count as one big plus to %ever, public opinion can exert a Robert Maxwell - he raises well- offset the many minuses he has so ,^Unter-influence, which, for founded concerns. In addition to his far piled up. After all, even Robert ^stance, explains why the Murdoch confrontational style and cavalier Maxwell's record was not '^^ss in this country has taken up a treatment of jotu-nalists, he stands unrelievedly black. Whereas the ••averick stance in recent general accused of dumbing down the paper period since the war had seen the ^'ections. by switching its focus fi-om politics number of national newspapers %ert Miu-doch owns titles both at and hard news to tittle-tattle about shrink - which refugee does not ^ top end iJTfie Times) and the showbiz and sport celebrities. On remember the late lamented Netvs '^tom (The Sun) of the newspaper the other hand, it could be argued in Chronicle? - Maxwell actually ^!'ge , which leaves the qualitative his defence that ever since the rise, reversed the downward trend by ^^ddl,e groimd to be fought over by first of TV and then of the Internet, creating The European. When victims Klagenfurt confronts its past become culprits Martha Blend it may be true, pace Shakespeare, that one man in his time plays many parts Austria, that centre of false Gemiitlichkeit, rendezvous for former SS comrades. but it is given to few to act out the has had a bad name recently. What with Werner Rofler's play, Tanzcafe Treblinka, diametrically opposite roles of victim the election of rightwing extremist takes its title from this cormection. and perpetrator Haider, and the gradual revelation of Gitta Sereny, the biographer of Hitler s One of the few was the Bulgarian Austria's Nazi past, the Danube doesn't architect, Speer, interviewed the Georgy Dimitrov, a political emigre in seem qiute so blue any more. All the more daughter of Globocnik (whose mother, Germany who shot to international surprising that in Klagenfurt, the capital ironically, was of Jewish descent). She prominence when the Nazis cast him as of Haider's Carinthia, a twelve-day didn't know, she told Sereny, whether to the chief accused in the Reichstag Fire probing of Carinthia's Nazi past has taken believe the Holocaust deniers who were Trial. In the dock, Dimitrov put up such a place in the form of theatre, symposia, bombarding her with pamphlets. A son oi consummate defence that the judicial and workshops. Lerch didn't want to discuss the past at authorities had to release him. He went Klagenfurt provided several high- all, but a son of Friedrich Rainer, another to Moscow where Stalin put him in ranking SS officials who were deeply prominent SS official, committed suicide- charge of the Comintern. In that post, involved in the murder of Jews in Neither of those interviewed had talked Dimitrov acted as the paranoid Treblinka. The chief perpetrator, Odilo to their father about his role in the SS. Georgian's compliant henchman in the Globocnik, a favourite of Himmler, took As to the local people, their reaction to purge of foreign Communists like Bela poison at the end of the war; others foiled the "festival" seemed to be one oi Kun and Heinz Neumann. the Allies by dressing as harmless bemusement or detachment. It will be an Another courageous victim-turned- civilians and so escaped retribution. One uphill struggle to make a dent in their transgressor is Nathan Sharansky who established in Klagenfurt the Cafe Lerch, ingrained antisemitism and xenophobia^ first attracted woddwide attention as named after him, which became a popular but worth a try. the Soviet Union's best-known Jewish refusenik. On his release Sharansky went to Israel where he set up a Russian immigrants' party. Their voting strength Das gemeine Wahlrecht suffices to secure him a permanent seat Richard Grunberger in the Cabinet. As Sharon's Minister of On the day the election was announced, nah' dem Konigsthron/Entlarvt a^^ Housing he is currently expanding I foimd myself humming, as one does, Schwule/Ging er nach Ultima Thule. Jewish settlement in the Occupied the German folksong Muss i'denn zum Territories, thereby maintaining AM AZONE Sir Anthony Stddtle hinaus (which Elvis Presley Palestinian resentment at fever pitch. EdenAferabscheute Jiden/Lord Dougla^ turned into the global hit Wooden Heart). Lastly, a 'victims' friend' turned Home/Erwarb wenig Ruhm/Sir Edward As the second verse of the original calumniator. The Victorian pictorial Heath/Wurd'es bald mies/Doch Lady contains the phrase Wann i'wieder-wieder artist George Cruikshank produced eye- Thatcher/Konnt' schmelze" kumm (pronounced as in Ann catchingly incisive cartoons castigating GletscherAJnd macht noch heute eiA Widdecombe), it occurred to me that the two of the greatest evils afflicting Geplatscher. Tories had missed a trick in not adopting London's poor: alcohol addiction and the song as their campaign hymn. This BLUT UND SAND Hart wie eiij polluted drinking water He was also the prompted me to compose several Armadillo/Und sanft wie DunlopiH"' illustrator of ChaHes Dickens' early (German language) ditties relevant to Nenn' ich, Miguel Portillo/Untef works, which included Oliver Twist. the election, which I refrained from Freunden mich Caudillo/Das heisst aiii Cruikshank's 'art work' for the latter publishing out of fear of influencing the Englisch Fiihrer/Denn der mir verspen^ included images of Fagin, who in his outcome. Here is a selection: den Weg/Ein Leithammel namen^ hideousness looks a precursor of the Hague/Ist ein sichrer Wahlverlierer. subhuman Jewish types which ROSAROT Aussenminister populated Sturmer cartoons a Morrison/Hatte den Cockney century later. Unterton/Selbst Stafford Cripps/Ass/is/j RG und chips/Harold Wilson/trank Bier aus JACKMAN • Pilsen/Und James Callaghan/War kaum SILVERMAN AJR Journal Personnel ein Gentleman/Doch Tony Blair/Fand das COMMERCIAL PROPERTY CONSUtTANTS Richard Grunb«rger Editor-in-Chief Ronald Channing Executive Editor doktrinar/Sagte: 'Nur mit Proleten/Ging Marion Koebner Staff Reporter die Partei fast fldten.' AJR Journal, 1 Hampstead Gate, la Frognal, London NW3 6AL Tel: 020 7431 6161 'SCHWARZER' PETER Der 26 Conduit Street, London WIR 9TA Fax: 020 7431 84S4 e-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 020 7409 0771 Fax: 020 7493 801 wortgewandte Mandelson/Stand ganz Prophets without honour in their own country NEWTONS Leading Hampstead Solicitors Richard Grunberger 22 Fitzjohn's Avenue, ^he curators of the Nine Cities Freudian rather in the way Brecht had London NWS 5NB -^ exhibition at the Tate Modern evolved into a Marxist before ever • All English legal work '^entitled the 1900s as the age of having read a word of Das Kapital. undertaken ''Modernism in Vienna. How great a Except for the film La Ronde, derived • Assistance given with German, ^ntribution to modernity some from his play Der Reigen, Schnitzler had Swiss & Austrian matters '^nnese Jews made is only being long made little impact on English- • German spoken ^ly realised almost a century after speaking audiences. Recently, • Home visits arranged ^he event. however, we have had David Hare's Teh 020 7435 5351 'Assistance to acknowledging the play The Blue Room (also adapted from Fax: 020 7435 8881 ^'ue of their work stemmed from two Der Reigen) and the Stanley Kubrick J^urces: aesthetic conservatism, a film Eyes Wide Shut, derived from Die ^^llmark of the Viennese art Traumnovelle. Because of its ^•^blishment, and antisemitism. explicitness some of Schnitzler's work had to wait for decades before it could *he cardiac sufferer Mahler's death PARTNER be performed.
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