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caused by Pentagon-inspired experiments. All references to the Pentagon have ended and the Soviets admit that the disease exists in the USSR. Though after using the Soviets' most quantitative...
...the grim self-righteousness of Jesse Jackson...
...I would like to add, however, a note on the particular vulnerability of youth (of which, at 23, I consider myself included) on this subject...
...About a third of the time these are very interesting and thought-provoking for conservatives...
...If we accept it, Israel must be redefined as a Third World country...
...We as youth naturally want to make things better and to change, really, all of life towards some ideal that we are sure glows in ourown fresh, uncorrupted hearts and can-not be found in those who have learned to live with and accept the status quo...
...Hint: he suggested Americans did too much of the fighting rather than too little...
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...Helen Caldicott...
...Of course, holocausts have happened again—and again—even to the present day, but that's another story...
...Tom Bethel/ Washington, D.C...
...And if we stopped all U.S...
...Some Shakespeare scholars, of course, frown on this because it complicates an already complex multi-ethnic patois, English...
...France develops nuclear weapons it deems necessary without any blather about talking with potential enemies or allies about disarming itself and with utter disregard for pacifist or leftist alarums...
...We have more important things to defend, don't we...
...For various reasons, receipt of U.S...
...Aid Killer Owen Harries is surely correct when he insists that there really is a Third World ("A Conservative's Guide to the Third World," TAS, January 1986...
...Only the specious, those driven by hate, and those politically motivated would disagree...
...He documents the mood of Reagan's America where no one else would think to look for it—in Alaska, northern Maine, and rural New Jersey instead of Silicon Valley and Washington...
...Most objectionable are repeated hints that Johnson and Nixon should simply have ignored popular opposition to the costs of the war...
...the "purity of the blood" was the ultimate goal of Germany...
...The unfortunate answer is, very little, especially if you subscribe to the New Yorker...
...Please limit your comments to 200 words, and include full name, address, and telephone number...
...German Guilt It will be interesting to see how the TAS readership will respond, if at all, in subsequent issues to Franz M. Oppenheimer's article, "Treacherous Signposts: The Perils of Misreading Germany's Past" (TAS, November 1985...
...John's Review, Winter 1982...
...South Korea is a former colony of Japan, but I would not put it in the Third World...
...M RM Jnn Inge %,10, .11411101015 54 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1986 stituted one stream in the Fuhrer's mind, while Jew hatred constituted a second...
...To find pure, triple-X smugness one must have a strongenough stomach to experience the frothy and emotionalist rantings of Dr...
...Bogus defenses provide no protection and should be given up as hollow shams...
...The correlation between antiGermanism and pro-Soviet sentiment which Oppenheimer explores is real...
...Jews were a contaminant...
...the hair-raising, icy nastiness of Hanoi Jane and her hubby what's-his-name...
...Over that time, we have saved many lives and huge sums of money...
...It would be historically and morally wrong to allow Hitler to get off the hook on the expedient of war...
...Compared to these and other strident leftist icons, Torquemada comes across as a humble seeker of enlightenment...
...aid but decline to accept it ("too proud to accept," as the AID officials say...
...aid, perhaps the Third World itself would dissolve into its component countries within a few years...
...Unfortunately, so do Zionists—albeit for different reasons...
...Headlines of this sort and Bennettism give the false impression to people that they are doing, or are being asked to do, something useful...
...Oppenheimer's multi-book review on Germany's (collective) guilt for the crimes of World War II deserves the affirmation of reader understanding and approbation which he feared would not be forthcoming...
...Mr...
...Our only chance (a doubtful one) to win the war decisively was to invade North Vietnam itself, thereby destroying Nixon's plans for an anti-Soviet alignment with China...
...Collective guilt offers an escape from reality that is especially appealing to youth...
...Those who think John McPhee is still living in the sixties should be reassured that he has adapted his love of nature to the 1980s...
...To return to Mr...
...and Ukraine...
...But we are the most unfree when reality crushes down on us as it always does with the greatest weight when in the form of manifest evil...
...But it more likely is formed like a bar-room brawl...
...Recipient status ensures an attitude of resentment toward the donor (people don't like being treated as welfare cases, even if they do take the money), and it also ensures continued poverty (the aid itself distorts economic incentives, making it unlikely that recipient governments will change destructive policies...
...Larry Schweikart University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio No Win As reported by Fred Barnes (TAS, December 1985), Shelby Stanton's arguments that we could have "won" the Vietnam war are rather unconvincing...
...Special Correspondence Update Your outraged correspondents committed a fatal error in their reaction to Peregrine Worsthorne's views about Europe and America—they took him seriously ("Peregrine Worsthorne Meets His Critics," TAS, December 1985...
...Much has been writ-ten about a "decade of neglect" towards military readiness under Ford and Carter, but by far the worst neglect occurred during those years when military spending was diverted to the current requirements of the Vietnam war...
...More advanced Finnish-Americans blended two languages to get what is known as "Finglish...
...Human Life in Russia has long been unobtainable...
...Moscow police broke up a demonstration that could have turned ugly after about twenty-five young people gathered in the fashionable Lenin Hills to mark Beatle John Lennon's death...
...The same kind of hate has been fanned and exploited to advance a liberal agenda at home...
...In 1969 we had already achieved our strategic objectives of (1) allowing prosperity and stability to develop in the ASEAN countries, and (2) "containing" Mao's China until it was distracted by a Soviet threat...
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...Setting aside Peregrine Worsthorne, and those few other British conservatives who sometimes like to indulge a snobbish anti-Americanism, American Spectator readers can rest assured that the vast majority of British conservatives share much the same ideas, fears, and hopes as American conservatives...
...Harries wants to include it, because it is an ex-colony, non-white, and non-aligned...
...And Marxism may not be the hopelessly improvident system that the Chamber of Commerce's flacks claim...
...The latter would save themselves much anguish if they would treat the ruminations of Mr...
...Bauer (now Lord Bauer): those countries that receive U.S...
...Last month, Poland's Academy of Social Sciences noted with conspicuous pride that Poland has the worst environmental pollution in the world...
...German,', cull, (wee...
...The most important are Mexico and Nigeria...
...foreign aid...
...Finally, in the December 14 Spectator of London Mr...
...The two pieces on the bears of New Jersey also wear a little thin...
...SAME DAY PAYMENT IS RECEIVED ORDERS TO OTHER COUNTRIES SENT BY POST...
...Frank C Taylor New Orleans, Louisiana Seine French Taki's "Seine City" in the November 1985 issue made me jealous of his youthful exploits...
...I, too, as a historian, have noted it not only in such obvious cases as A.J.P...
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...Barnes is correct that the U.S...
...Peregrine Worsthorne laments an "anti-American article of mine" that appeared in the October American Spectator...
...Stern emphasizes the alleged connection between the German catastrophe and "illiberal" German attitudes, manifested through a patriarchal family structure and the strict upbringing of children...
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...Julius J. Fernbach Elmo, New York Although I suspect that Mr...
...Why not order reprints for your employees, shareholders, visiting consumer groups, and the press...
...and even the anti-German aspect of the post World War I Red Scare is all but ignored...
...I don't think that colonial or ex-colonial status is of the essence, although in fact most aid-recipient countries are ex-colonial...
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...The book, 330 pages in a cloth binding and striking jacket, is well illustrated and documented...
...TAS should be commended for printing it...
...Perhaps what Mr...
...The Asian Rim countries are non-white and non Third World...
...Never before in my entire professional life has any article of mine provoked such personal abuse...
...Worsthorne is not a pro-found political thinker, but a journalist who routinely makes a deliberate effort to be provocative...
...On this occasion he succeeded brilliantly...
...I eventually came to the conclusion that it was not a matter of in-credulity but of will...
...Poland is anothercountry that receives some U.S...
...Without doubt the comparison between the willingness of vast numbers of Germans to participate in Nazi society and "the willingness of so many well-meaning Americans" to condone by deliberate ignorance the basic evil of Soviet totalitarianism, will prove as patently offensive to the liberal-left as it is justified historically and, dare I say, morally...
...Nor do I believe that race should be thought of as contributing to a definition of the Third World...
...it belongs in every collection of books on the U.S.S.R...
...A few other ethnic groups have done the same, I bet...
...Additionally, France's domestic electrical power generation is now mostly nuclear, which means it is safe, reliable, and uninterruptible at the political whim of minor potentates...
...Risto Marttinen Falls Church, Virginia Here's To You, Hannah Regarding Mr...
...Open Man," an update of the classic profile of Bill Bradley which was the first article McPhee published in the New Yorker, is inferior to these pieces, consisting of little more than what was fed into McPhee's tape recorder...
...One thinks of both as Third World countries...
...Moreover, in Hitler's theology, a sacrifice was an absolute necessity, just as in the Old Testament...
...Congress has ear-marked $10 million in development assistance funds to provide support to the Catholic Church Foundation of Poland to carry out pilot agricultural projects, and the country in fiscal year 1986 receives $13.2 million in food assistance...
...So does Portugal...
...After all, these people don't even have the Depression, Hitler, or Vietnam as an excuse anymore, and God knows that utopianism should surely have been discredited by now...
...By the same token Israel should be more wary of accepting American hand-outs...
...In a 1932 speech he said, "Let them call us inhuman...
...Another third are directly contrary to conservative beliefs and aspirations, (e.g., capitalism will never work in Britain because . . . ), and the remaining third are so obviously wrong as to be not worth considering...
...Announcing . A Major Work on Genocide & Terrorism in Ukraine: LIFE IN IIUSSIA Ewald Ammende's Human Life in Russia is the long unavailable history of the "Hidden Holocaust" and the cover-up which prevented news of the starvation of nearly 7,000,000 Ukrainians from being reported in the West during 1931-1934...
...McPhee's last collection of articles, Giving Good Weight, published in 1979, followed the same formula...
...Admittedly, Bauer's criterion is imperfect...
...Oppenheimer is correct in linking leftist Teutonophobia to a specific geopolitical agenda, the abandonment of Central Europe to the Red Army...
...Oppenheimer correctly places the notion of collective guilt where it belongs—right next to dangerous deceit and political hypocrisy...
...As such, his work is one of the earliest histories of the Gulag, wherein the Archipelago consisted of an entire nation to be punished for its opposition to totalitarianism...
...Hannah's letter, I just can't credit his charge of "brazen smugness" within the pages of TAS...
...Publishing a good anthology ought to imply weeding out pieces which aren't worth collecting...
...Hitler's "attack on Judaism substitut[ed] German blood for the [eternal] soul...
...In this intensive, thoroughly documented report, Rael Jean Isaac demonstrates how small-isbeautiful "public interest groups...
...Peter Young Adam Smith Institute Washington, D.C...
...Most people, the ordinary as well as the intellectual, have long since buried the concept of "collective national guilt" in the grave marked "Nonsense...
...He deliberately takes a perverse approach to his subject in an attempt to come up with some novel and stimulating conclusions...
...France has what I call a "Seine Nuclear Policy...
...Furthermore Tanzania, which is practically the archetypal Third World country, now does not seem to be receiving U.S...
...What is this "In Defense of the American Language" editorial (TAS, December 1985...
...Ammende, a professional humanitarian whose career is markedly similar to that of Raoul Wallenberg a decade later, gathered eye-witness testimony on the Famine as a means of exposing the awful truth of the genocide and terrorism then occurring in Ukraine...
...Elie Wiesel, a man who justifiably has a stake in keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive "lest it happen again," expressively harbors no ill will against the Germans collectively...
...Unlike Mr...
...I don't know why people claim to be defending the American language when actually they are doing nothing...
...Barnes, the American people recognized that poor and remote Vietnam simply was not worth 10,000 dead Americans every year for the indefinite future...
...Yes, but how else is one to prevent the immanetizing of the eschaton, and Perry is not anti-American...
...Copies of this are now available...
...Oppenheimer treats the declaration of war by Hitler as a part of his attack on Judaism, but in reality the war conGAMES ANTI-NUKES PLAY As nuclear power becomes increas- 111.11111MAwRµuliu00111mwRiaR ingly essential to the economies of the industrialized West, why has it been eight years since a power company ordered a nuclear power plant built in the United States...
...I think my point is born out in the role played by the Vietnam conflict—through the Cambodian holocaust—in the minds of American youth...
...Would Education Secretary William Bennett eliminate such a colorful character...
...The latter always had priority over the former...
...A.IkN,Yn Ply...
...Some think language develops smoothly, progressively, like a flower...
...Nor is there an introduction, an index, drawings, or an imaginative title...
...For example, Hitler wanted to effect the "reconciliation of mankind...
...NOTE: Ohio residents must add .91 sales tax per copy...
...I once heard of a Duluth Finn who had been a lumberjack in America, who, after 45 years, did not know what "one o'clock" meant...
...Perhaps the best definition of the Third World was provided by PT...
...Hitler's emphasis on blood atonement was a lynchpin of Nazi thought and a complete reversal of Judaism...
...military could have (for a price) chewed up any NVA units sent into South Vietnam...
...In this way the relativism of collective guilt clears the youthful perspective for absolutist action and frees us from our inherent enemy, responsibility to experience...
...The infallible New York Post reports that the reason the Oxford Union cancelled its debate between this illustrious journal's editor and the Rev...
...By this criterion Singapore would be excluded, as I think it should be...
...The Communist governments of Ethiopia and Angola also receive PL 480 Title II (food assistance), while the Soviet-controlled government of Mozambique is scheduled to receive $30 million of tax-payers' money in fiscal 1986...
...His article was clear, rational, forceful, scholarly, and there can be no sound argument against his thesis...
...No, the American neo-conservatives seem to be in a class of their own when it comes to intellectual brawling...
...Paul Gottfried Chairman Department of History Rockford College Rockford, Illinois Mr...
...trying to shake them down for the cost of five transatlantic fares, though he and his entourage of spongers were going to be in London anyway under the sponsorship of the Greater London Council and the Anti Apartheid Movement...
...Ignorant people cannot defend wisdom anymore than criminals can defend justice...
...The famous Columbia professor (and a man of the left), Fritz Stern, has written a book to warn against the "politics of illiberalism" in Bismarckian Germany...
...Ever since the thirties, when Eric Fromm and Theodor Adorno discovered the "authoritarian personality," critics of social constraint and sexual roles have found it useful to turn to the German case...
...Loewenberg traces Hitler's clear-cut plans to liquidate the Jews as far back as 1922, and shows rather decisively that Hitler had developed an entire theology of Germanity based on the principle of blood (i.e., Germans were pure...
...It pierces that web of confusing complexities thrown up by the march of history and cuts a simple and straight line to the source of youthful energy, our natural emotion, optimism and fanaticism...
...aid does work quite well to define what one thinks of as the Third World...
...It is only rarely that he hits the right target, and is more likely to spike a friend in the eye...
...Lenin and Stalin are shown more sympathetically than Kaiser Wilhelm...
...In one respect, the article need not have been written...
...Though after using the Soviets' most quantitative methods, Professor Viktor Zhdanov of the Soviet Institute on Viruses has found that Soviet AIDS cases number "less than the fingers of two hands...
...I wish we would stop cowering at "world opinion...
...Hannah has somehow mistaken for smugness in TAS is the intensity that comes from knowing that you are one of the few voices raised against the tide of mindless "hip politics" that oozes over America...
...Jesse Jackson was that the students planning the debate caught the Rev...
...If we save Germany, we shall have done the greatest deed in the world [by killing the Jews]," i.e., greater than the Resurrection...
...Yet I would rather that my own peer group refer to Paul Johnson's excellent Modern Times and his chapter on the Weimar Republic which chronicles the shameful precedent provided by the ardent enthusiasm of university students on behalf of National Socialism...
...Taylor and William Shirer, but also in American history textbooks...
...I guess that those of us with VCRs know that we can always slap on "The Day After" for some cheap laughs...
...Indeed, most of Hitler's more frank statements about his plans for the Jews occurred before the war broke out, and certainly many can be found in Mein Kampf...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1986 55...
...The Stanford historian, David M. Kennedy, for example, heartily endorses American involvement in the First World War against "Prussian Militarism," but (continued on page 54) .THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1986 9 of inventive entrepreneurship, and the independence of mind that gives rise to it...
...We are, consequently, the freest when we are the most idealistic...
...Otherwise, I'm sure John McPhee would agree, it doesn't justify chopping down all those trees...
...Now TAS may be opinionated, but it is not smug...
...Spain and Italy also receive very small amounts of U.S...
...The price we paid even for these gains was steep...
...I first learned Brooklynese, then Georgian, then Kansan...
...Still, it is interesting that one does think of Julius Nyerere's domain as quintessentially Third World, because that unhappy land has received, worldwide, perhaps more aid per capita than any other country in the past 25 years...
...Hitler argued that winning the war was relatively unimportant compared to his priority of Jewish liquidation even before the 1941 date given by Haffner...
...Charles M Hart Cranford, New Jersey The American Spectator welcomes correspondence from its readers...
...It also made me jealous of France's nuclear policies...
...with the unwitting aid of government regulatory agencies, have brought the nuclear power industry to its knees with a strategy of endless lawsuits, spurious health scares, and cynical media manipulation—all in the name of promoting a safe energy policy...
...Matthew Hannah's let-ter in your December 1985 issue, I must confess to an embarrassing naivet6: I am still amazed when an apparently rational, intelligent, person places himself "securely in the left-wing camp...
...I have often sat in dolorous wonderment at my peers' apparent gullibility on the history of Marxism-Leninism and Soviet aggression...
...aid, although not much...
...If there still remain pockets of doubt over the indictment of "collective national guilt," in this case, the guilt of Germany and the Germans over what transpired in the Hitler years of the 1930s and 40s, Oppenheimer's article should put such doubts to rest...
...This article originally appeared in the November 1985 issue of The American Spectator...
...For the last ten years, China hasdone our work for us, keeping Communist Vietnam weak and isolated...
...OPKnh...
...In addition, there are some countries that are eligible for U.S...
...Since North Vietnam's birth-rate was 200,000 males a year, however, they could have maintained a bloody struggle indefinitely (just as they do in Kampuchea today...
...Unlike ours, their political control is strengthened by long "patriotic" wars...
...ORDERS SHIPPED THROUGHOUT THE U.S...
...Worsthorne in the same light-hearted manner as they were written...
...As should be obvious from the topics, there is really no common thread to this anthology...
...aid, for reasons that are not clear to me (I am sure that they turned us down rather than vice versa...
...But surely a definition should exclude Second World countries (aligned with the Soviet Union) such as Cuba...
...Worsthorne, therefore, is much like a paper dart...
...The timing of the actual orders was in fact inconsequential, as Robert Loewenberg shows in his article, "The Trivialization of the Holocaust as an Aspect of Modern Idolatry" (St...
...the mind-numbing double standards of Anthony Lewis or Alexander Cock-burn...
...we make it available with the hope that the lesson of the Ukrainian Famine will not be lost on our times...
...Such knowledge doesn't breed smugness, but it does seem to do wonders for the sense of humor...
...It may also be that there is no simple way of defining it...
...More should go into one than eight disconnected essays, cardboard, and cloth...
...Hugo S. Cunningham Omaha, Nebraska What Language...
...And indeed it does not receive U.S...
...BY U.P.S...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 9) then stresses American responsibility for the Cold War...
...Nicholas P Granath Minnetonka, Minnesota Franz Oppenheimer's otherwise excellent review of recent historiography about the German past is in error on a rather important point...
...Having read the Worsthorne columns in the Sunday Telegraph every week for many years, I am well aware of his technique...
...Twelve million Poles live on the "verge of ecological catastrophe...
...Still, there is a horde of them out there, and it seems to swell with every rerun of "M*A*S*H...
...If we could only stop giving aid to Communist countries, Bauer's definition would work quite well...
...When the students discovered his scam, they rescinded their invitations, and the UK was denied the chance to witness a Twentieth Century equivalent of a Lincoln-Douglas debate—Lincoln being short, Douglas being inebriated and somewhat demented...
...Because the American language is a bit shaky right now and because all the rules have not been pinned down, maybe it is best to avoid over-enthusiastic declarations...
...Oppenheimer will indeed suffer the collective wrath of Teutonophobes, his superb essay on modern German history deserved to be published...
...The question then arises, what makes this anthology a book...
...For insight into how America might have "succeeded" in Vietnam much more cheaply, read The Betrayal by William Corson, a Marine colonel who ran one of very few successful "pacification" programs...
...Oppenheimer accepts Sebastian Haffner's argument that the "final solution" orders only came after Hitler "was convinced his war was lost...
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