Racists repelled, a bad speech and new tech
Attack on racialism
The announcement by the Young National Front that they would seek to join the British Youth Council prompted a strong policy against racialism this week at the council’s monthly meeting. Although the YNF has not yet made its application, the council’s chairman, Peter Mandelson, told the Jewish Chronicle this week that there had been a “unanimous decision” to adopt an “unreservedly anti-racist position.” While that would not prevent the YNF from making an application should they so wish, Mr Mandelson said that acceptance of such an application would be “inconsistent” with council policy.
Flatto speaks in Hebrew
Mr Shmuel Flatto Sharon, the millionaire immigrant from France whose extradition has been requested by that country, has made his maiden speech. He spoke for ten minutes in support of the Government’s new economic measures. Mr Flatto Sharon, who does not speak Hebrew, read his speech from a handwritten text transcribed into Latin characters and clearly did not understand what he was saying. Mr Flatto Sharon’s fellow Knesset members restrained their desire to heckle him out of respect for the convention that a maiden speech in the Knesset must be heard out in silence. After losing his seat in the Knesset in 1981, the multi-millionaire Sharon returned to a life of business and parties. He was wanted in France on embezzlement charges, so rarely left Israel but in the early 1990s was arrested in Rome. Facing extradition to France he escaped back to Israel, dressed as a woman. He eventually paid a large fine to settle his case with the French authorities.
News window
It is well worth visiting Furnival Street at the moment just to look at the Jewish Chronicle’s front window. By courtesy of Berry’s of High Holborn, we are staging a demonstration from 9.30 am. to 5.30 pm every weekday of Ceefax, the BBC’s teletext service. This gives an up-to-themoment news bulletin on an ordinary TV set fitted with the special Ceefax decoder.