Three hot baseball rookies are Pete Reiser, Pee Wee Reese, and Phil Rizzuto. While Americans look upon that era as one of innocence, life is harder for women and minorities. If women have it hard, so do Jews. Despite continuing revelations of anti-Semitic outrages in Germany, there are no widespread protests or efforts to loosen immigration quotas to help European Jewish refugees. Far from it.
Blacks have it even worse.
Blacks are barred from serving in the Navy as anything but mess attendants. And Hispanics are simply ignored. A convoy of 60 trucks sets off across the ice road over Lake Ladoga with 33 tons of flour for the besieged city of Leningrad, where starvation threatens. A dark and windy night shrouded the lake. There was no snow yet and the black- lined field of ice looked for all the world like open water.