In a night-shrouded field north of Los Angeles a cross burned red. The wartime shortage of sheets and bigotry was lifting. The postwar Ku Klux Klan, already on the march in the South (TIME, May 20) was on the loose again in southern California.
Soon a cross burned in front of a Jewish fraternity house on the University of Southern California campus; another illumined the house of a Los Angeles Negro. In Hollywood's cream-stucco Temple Israel, Rabbi Max Nussbaum, a Nazi refugee, gazed with dismay at the holy ark, ravaged by unknown vandals, and the swastikas and hate messages smeared on...
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