Letter.I was intrigued by the opinion that `India was thought to be the only country in the world which has never persecuted the Jews' (For A Change, April-May 2002). In Australia I am unaware of any ghettos or pogroms involving these gifted people. Our first Australian-born Governor General, appointed in 1933, was Sir Isaac Isaacs Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG (6 August 1855–12 February 1948), Australian judge and politician, was the ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first Australian to occupy that post. , and the most famous and highly regarded World War I General was Sir John Monash, both Jews. This hardly seems like `persecution'. The editors welcome letters for publication but reserve the right to shorten them. Please write to `For A Change', 24 Greencoat Place, London SWIP SWIP Scottish Widows Investment Partnership SWIP Shared WhoIs Project SWIP Society for Women in Philosophy SWIP Sensor Web for Infrastructure Protection (centralized monitoring) SWIP Software Improvement Program IRD IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (French) IRD Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand's tax revenue collection department) IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder . E-mail: fac@mra.org.uk From George Wilson, Kogorah Bay, NSW NSW New South Wales Noun 1. NSW - the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare Naval Special Warfare , Australia |
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