I would be truly horrified if I left the impression that the infamous Peter Bergson was a fiery troublemaker among WWII's American Jewry.
He wasn't - not by a long shot - he was merely the least limp dick among a legion of limp dicks, when it came to saving Europe's Jews.
Pity he didn't have the estrogen levels of those "iron-jawed angels" of peaceful civil disobedience, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who did chain themselves to the White House and only escaped 'torture-death by force-feeding' by accident.
If Alice and Lucy had been Jewish militants during WWII, they might have done as well by their acts of civil disobedience for the Holocaust victims as they had earlier done for the 'votes for women' campaign.
Pity.......
On Oct 16th 1940, Gotham's concrete jungle rescued the NATURAL penicillin stone its (British) builders had rejected and gave the world's first antibiotic shot. Alexander Fleming's ARTIFICIAL penicillin (ironically from leafy green Oxford !) won a Nobel but failed morally and technically. Instead Manhattan Natural radiated hope to a world tired, huddled and wretched. On its 75th, let's remind terrorist Ramzi Yousef about a Manhattan project that saved far more lives than the A-Bomb ever killed.
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