Citizendia
Your Ad Here

For other persons named Dorothy Thompson, see Dorothy Thompson (disambiguation). Notable people named Dorothy Thompson include Dorothy Thompson, American journalist Dorothy Thompson (historian, British historian
Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893, Lancaster, New York – January 30, 1961, Portugal) was an American journalist, who was noted by Time magazine in 1939 as one of the two most influential women in America, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Lancaster New York may refer to the following locations in Erie County New York: Lancaster (town New York Lancaster (village Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt October 11 1884 &ndash November 7 1962 [1]

She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany (in 1934)[1], and as the inspiration for Katharine Hepburn's character Tess Harding in the film Woman of the Year (1942). Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12 1907 – June 29 2003 was an American actress of film television and stage

According to Bennett Cerf in Try and Stop Me (1944), she socked a woman who made pro-Nazi remarks in her presence — after asking her to step outside. Bennett Alfred Cerf ( May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was a publisher and co-founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations She also attended the Bund rally at Madison Square Garden, where she showed her disgust by giving the participants the Bronx cheer. The German American Bund or German American Federation (German Amerikadeutscher Bund) was an American Nazi organization established in the 1930s Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four Arenas in New York City. Blowing a raspberry or strawberry or making a Bronx cheer is to make a noise signifying derision (and/or silliness made by sticking out the tongue between the lips

In 1938, Dorothy Thompson championed the cause of a Polish-German immigrant to France, Herschel Grynszpan, whose assassination of a minor German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, had been used as propaganda by the Nazis to trigger the events of Kristallnacht in Germany. Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (sometimes spelled in the German form Grünspan, as Grunspahn, or in English as Greenspan) (born March Ernst Eduard vom Rath ( June 3, 1909 &ndash November 9, 1938) was a German Diplomat. Kristallnacht ( literally "Crystal night" or the Night of Broken Glass was a Pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9–10 1938 Thompson's broadcast on NBC radio was heard by millions of listeners, and led to an outpouring of sympathy for the young assassin. Under the banner of the Journalists' Defense Fund, over $40,000 USD was collected, enabling famed European lawyer Vincent de Moro-Giafferi to take up Grynszpan's case. Vincent de Moro-Giafferi ( 6 June 1878 - 15 February 1956) was a French Criminal attorney. The assassination inspired the composer Michael Tippett to write his oratorio A Child of Our Time as a plea for peace, and as a protest against the persecution of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany. Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, OM (2 January 1905 &ndash 8 January 1998 was one of the foremost English Composers of the 20th century A Child of Our Time is an Oratorio written by Michael Tippett between 1939 and 1941 His use of Negro spirituals to allude to the subjugation of the Jews is particularly innovative, and arguably deeply haunting. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************

As an American of German descent, Thompson felt it incumbent upon her to organize other German-Americans to speak out against Nazism, and counter the publicity given the pro-Nazi German-American Bund[1]. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German The German American Bund or German American Federation (German Amerikadeutscher Bund) was an American Nazi organization established in the 1930s In the fall of 1942, she approached the World Jewish Congress, which agreed to pay for such a statement, and in the last week of December, 1942, the "Christmas Declaration by men and women of German ancestry" was printed appeared in the New York Times and nine other major American daily newspapers, signed by fifty prominent German-Americans, the most famous being Babe Ruth. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The World Jewish Congress ( WJC) is an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations Dorothy Thompson ( 9 July 1893, Lancaster New York – January 30, 1961, Portugal) was an American journalist George Herman Ruth Jr (February 6 1895 &ndash August 16 1948 also popularly known as " Babe " " The Bambino " and " The Sultan of [1]

She married Sinclair Lewis in 1928, the second of her three marriages (her first was to Josef Bard). Sinclair Lewis ( February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American Novelist, Short-story writer and Joseph Bard (also known as Diamant József, 1882-1975 was an expatriate Hungarian writer known for a novel Shipwreck in Europe (1928 and Short stories Their son, actor Michael Lewis, was born in 1930. She divorced Lewis in 1942.

After World War II, Thompson wrote an article in Commentary cautioning American Jews about Zionism as it would lead to dual loyalty. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Commentary is an American monthly Magazine covering Politics, International affairs, Judaism, and social cultural American Jews, or Jewish Americans History of Zionism|Timeline of Zionism|World Zionist Organization|Zionist political violence Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the Dual loyalty is a term used in Political discussions to describe a situation where a person has loyalty to two separate interests which potentially conflict with each other The Jewish Oscar Handlin rebutted her in the same issue. Oscar Handlin (born September 29, 1915, Brooklyn) is an American Historian. Later, she became very critical of the newly created state of Israel. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics.

Contents

Thompson on Grynszpan Affair

"I am speaking of this boy. Soon he will go on trial. The news is that on top of all this terror, this horror, one more must pay. They say he will go to the guillotine, without a trial by jury, with the rights that any common murderer has…"
"Who is on trial in this case? I say we are all on trial. I say the men of Munich are on trial, who signed a pact without one word of protection for helpless minorities. Whether Herschel Grynszpan lives or not won't matter much to Herschel. He was prepared to die when he fired those shots. His young life was already ruined. Since then, his heart has been broken into bits by the results of his deed. "
"They say a man is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers, and a man's kinsmen rally around him, when he is in trouble. But no kinsman of Herschel's can defend him. The Nazi government has announced that if any Jews, anywhere in the world, protest at anything that is happening, further oppressive measures will be taken. They are holding every Jew in Germany as a hostage. "
"Therefore, we who are not Jews must speak, speak our sorrow and indignation and disgust in so many voices that they will be heard. This boy has become a symbol, and the responsibility for his deed must be shared by those who caused it. "

Partial text of the Christmas Declaration by men and women of German ancestry

"[W]e Americans of German descent raise our voices in denunciation of the Hitler policy of cold-blooded extermination of the Jews of Europe and against the barbarities committed by the Nazis against all other innocent peoples under their sway. These horrors . . . are, in particular, a challenge to those who, like ourselves are descendants of the Germany that once stood in the foremost ranks of civilization. . . . [We] utterly repudiate every thought and deed of Hitler and his Nazis . . . [and urge Germany] to overthrow a regime which is in the infamy of German history. "[1]

Quotations

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Babe Ruth and the Holocaust", Connecticut Jewish Ledger, December 19, 2007. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

External links

Marion Klein Sanders ( 14 August 1905, Lawrence Long Island New York – 16 September, 1977, New York New York was an American journalist
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic