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Dorothy Thompson, American Anti-zionist Journalist, Dies in Lisbon

February 1, 1961
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Dorothy Thompson, well-known journalist who was known for many years as liberal and pro-Jewish, but turned anti-Zionist in recent years, died last night in Lisbon, Portugal, according to dispatches received here today. She was 66.

Miss Thompson was the head of the anti-Zionist organization known as Friends of the Middle East. During the Hitler era, she wrote dispatches from Germany exposing the anti-Semitic policies and practices of the Nazi regime.

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