Commenting on the resignation of Premier Bela Imredy of Hungary after his Jewish antecedents had been discovered, the New York Times declared editorially today that “a sane world would judge a man by his own qualities, not by his grandmother’s or great-grandfather’s race or religion, or even by their virtues or lack of them. And another name for sanity, in this meaning, is democracy.”
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