Johnsons JAHRESTAGE - Der Kommentar

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	07. Februar 1968

687, 18	dear Mary, dorogaja Marija - (engl., russ.) Liebe Marie.
687, 24-31	Du warst beschäftigt ... dicker Rauch aufsteigt - Auf dem Foto in der NYT vom 7.2.1968 von der zweiten Woche der Belagerung Saigons sind zwei Personen, Haufen von Schutt und im Hintergrund Rauch zu erkennen. Die Bildunterschrift lautet: »Destruction In Saigon: A view of Colon, the Chinese section in the southern part of Saigon, after fires, bombing and street fighting between the Vietcong guerillas and the allied forces destroyed whole blocks in the area.«
687, 26	Chinesenviertels von Saigon - Das Chinesenviertel im südlichen Saigon (s.K. 30, 32) heißt richtig Cho Lon (cho: Markt, lon: groß); s. 687, 37.
687, 34- 688, 5	Das andere Bild ... Vaters retten wollen - Vgl. Foto in der NYT vom 7.2.1968 mit dem Text: »Fire Fighters: Children in Colon district of Saigon forming a bucket brigade yesterday to put out fire in what remains of father’s machine shop, leveled by air strike.«
688, 6-21	Das dritte nennt ... Straße eine Szene - Vgl. Foto in der NYT vom 7.2.1968 mit dem Text: »Street Scene in Hue during recent heavy fighting. Two Vietnamese lie dead near a hand-drawn cart, and the third, upper right, lies in road behind jeep as tank look for foe.«
688, 22-29	Das vierte ist ... Marine, ausdrücklich versichert - Vgl. Foto in der NYT vom 7.2.1968 mit dem Text: »Civilian Casualties lie in the hallway of a hospital in Mytho, South Vietnam. A quarter of the city’s buildings was said to be destroyed. A physician reported 1,500 civilians in his hospital and an antibiotics shortage.« Vgl. den Artikel »Civilian Wounded Jam Hospital; Boy Scouts Carrying Stretchers« der NYT vom 7.2.1968 über das General Hospital in Danang, das mit einer Kapazität für 260 Kranke 1.000 Patienten aufnehmen mußte: »The patients are placed two and three to a bed or on stretchers on the floor between the beds. Many stretchers have been placed on outside porches under shelters hung to keep off the hot sun. Other stretchers have been placed in the mess hall and in storage rooms. [...] Yeoman 2d. Cl. Jim Morris of South Pine, N.C. pointed out one ward, mostly empty, in a complex of hospital buildings several blocks from the main facility. ›This one is for patients who can afford to pay for treatment,‹ he said.«
688, 36	»für wenn ich tot bin« - s. 151, 15.
689, 12	Remagen - Stadt am Rhein, südlich von Bonn.
689, 14- 690, 22	So hättest du ... warum und wozu - Vgl. den Artikel »Czechs Give Data On Jordan’s Death« der NYT vom 7.2.1968: »The Czechoslovak Government has given the United States a further report on the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death in Prague last August of Charles H. Jordan, a prominent figure in Jewish refugee aid efforts. The report leaves unanswered the key questions asked since his disappearance: Was he killed and, if so, by whom? [...] the Czechs had labeled their report an interim report and that they had given every indication that further information would be provided as it was collected. [...] He [Jordan] disappeared in Prague last Aug. 16. His body was found in the Vlatava River four days later. The Czech report states formally that he died of suffocation from drowning and that there were no signs of ›major trauma‹ on his body that would suggest a violent assault previous to death. He is said to have died between 11 P.M. and midnight on the 16th, and his body is said to have fallen into the river from a certain point on the First of May Bridge in downtown Prague. This was ascertained, the Czechs said, by lengthy tests of river currents using a dummy of Mr. Jordan’s size and weight. Pictures of the scene and drawings of the river currents are attached to the report [...]. Suicide has been ruled out by persons in this country and abroad who knew Mr. Jordan closely. [...] Reliable sources have related the experience of a Belgian scientist invited to a Communist East European country - not Czechoslovakia - shortly after Mr. Jordan’s death. After his return to Belgium, the scientist, a Jew, said that he had been followed constantly during his visit. When he complained to the authorities of the country, he was quietly told that he was being followed for his own protection and that [...] ›Soviet agents will not do to you what they did to Jordan.‹ That is one persistent belief among Mr. Jordan’s associates - that he was killed by representatives of the Soviet security police, the K.G.B. Another rumor in Prague is that his death was the work of Arab agents [...]. A further twist came Dec. 10, when a Swiss pathologist retained by the Joint Distribution Committee to conduct an autopsy was found dead in a snowy forest near Zürich. The pathologist, Prof. Ernst Hardmeier, was found frozen to death several hundred yards from his locked automobile. [...] But it is known that he had not completed the examination of minor evidence relating to the case«; s.K. 11, 11-15.
689, 18	J.O.I.N.T. - So nur in der Erstausgabe, in allen anderen Ausgaben: A.J.J.D.C.; s.K. 11, 14.
689, 25	K.G.B. - s.K. 521, 11.
689, 32	Č.S.R. - s.K. 657, 19.
690, 23	Dorogaja Marija - (russ.) Liebe Maria.
690, 32	Sincerely yours - s.K. 190, 14.