Gerald Astor, the Look magazine senior editor who has been criticized by Dr. Joachim Prinz for allegedly “distorting” his comments for use in the article “The Agonized American Jews,” said that the quotations printed were all documented in the notes he took during their three-hour interview. “I respect him greatly,” said Astor of Dr. Prinz, former president of the American Jewish Congress, when queried by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, “but when a man speaks at great length” not all his remarks can be published. Astor added that “I don’t feel that I have seriously missed something that he said.” On one specific complaint of Dr. Prinz’s, that he was not, as alleged, “a 1937 graduate of solirary confinement in a Nazi concentration camp.” Astor said his notes showed that Dr. Prinz left Germany after experiencing “solitary confinement in a Nazi Jail.”
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