A RABBIT IS ARRESTED ATTEMPTING TO LEAVE THE SOVIET UNION.

The interrogator inquires as to the rabbit's reasons.

"Because I heard that all camels are to be castrated."

The interrogator protests, "But you are a rabbit!"

Race hatreds — social prejudices — religious bigotry — they are the diseases that eat away the fibers of peace. Unless they are exterminated it’s inevitable that we will have another war. And where are they going to be exterminated? At a conference table in Geneva? Not by a long shot. In your own city — your church — your children’s school — perhaps in your own home.

You and I must do it – every father and mother in the world, every teacher, everyone who can rightfully call himself a human being. Yes, it seems to me that the one thing the peoples of the world have got to learn if we are ever to have a lasting peace, is — tolerance. Of what use will it be if the lights go on again all over the world — if they don’t go on … in our hearts.

Yes, the rabbit responds, but try explaining that to the authorities after they have castrated you for being a camel!

[Kate] Smith’s recording library was extensive. Like many white singers of her time, she sang songs that most modern-day listeners would find offensive. Those included two songs with titles and lyrics that demean black people, “Pickaninny Heaven” and “That’s Why Darkies Were Born,” which was also recorded by the African-American singer and activist Paul Robeson.

After a fan alerted the Yankees to the songs, the team said it would stop playing Smith’s version of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch. The Flyers followed suit, saying the songs were incompatible with the team’s values. The team also removed Smith’s statue outside its arena, though officials would not say where they took it.

Philadelphia Inquirer columnist John Timpane asks, "So where do we go to find Kate Smith? To the young singer of the early 1930s, or the mature star of the war years?"

One possibility might be Wildwood, New Jersey.

After Stalin died, the camels might have been rehabilitated along with all the other broken eggs.