Dear Editor
Dear Editor Mihajlovich I never believed that somebody would find widely recognized facts about General Drazha Mihajlovich "highly regrettable." But that's what has happened. Ante R.K. Jeric,...
...humanitarian-socialism, let alone liberation...
...Jeric appears to be very familiar with the Marx-Engels correspondence...
...The Serbian soil seized by Turkish usurpers [i.e., Croatian Moslems-H.L.] waits to be cultivated by Serbian hands...
...The natives of the directly threatened regions have long recognized this obvious fact-that is why they flee...
...New York City Laszlo T. Kiss...
...So much for Mr...
...Each triumph for their fellow-philistines anywhere on the globe adds fuel to their own simmering hatreds and sinister hopes...
...The urban militants who are already active within their dissolute societies are equally driven by the idea of "liberation" and "justice" through terror...
...That is fine, so long as it does not lead to incorrect conclusions...
...Yet since this particular group of storm troopers (who also have the unmistakably counterrevolutionary habit of burning books) supposedly represents the forces of progress, Jean-Paul Sartre and his friends at their political theater of the absurd are not moved to protest their bloody advance...
...Here is how they intended to accomplish that: "We shall establish a common border between Serbia and Slovenia, wiping out the Moslems of Sandzak and the Moslems and Catholics of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...America is the nation of emigrants, and if Friedrich Engels thought coming to this great country of ours "makes a fool, an ass and a scoundrel" of people, then that's really too bad...
...Jeric, attempting to deny the truth through insinuations, labels my remarks about Mihajlovich and the crimes of his bearded Chetniks as "misinformation" (Dear Editor, NL, April 28...
...Today, apart from a very few families, none remain...
...Western nations must not delude themselves into believing that this violence is too far away to concern them...
...The objectives and methods of these guerrillas are identical from Hanoi to Havana: to establish permanent dictatorships under despotic commissars in the rhetorical name of the proletariat, and to manage them by terror...
...Their liberators' blueprints for revolution bear the mark of Stalin's savage legacy, even if the structure at the top is no longer monolithic...
...It is also true that I am very proud of that fact, regardless of how Engels described emigration...
...That meant total annihilation of the Croatian people...
...It is true that I am an emigrant-like Mr...
...You will not find a single Moslem there now, and not a sign of their settlements and houses...
...Finally, Mr...
...Once, in that district, there were 26,000 Moslems and Catholics...
...This time I will let the Chetniks speak for themselves...
...In the March 14, 1943, issue of their organ, Srpski List, one can read the following: "We all see the only salvation, in the creation of the Serbian state, where only Orthodox Serbs will live, bravely protecting Serbs and all mankind from criminals...
...Instead, adding insult to injury, the grand masters of electronic journalism continue to tell the American public that the flight of the masses in Vietnam has been prompted merely by their fear of the unknown...
...If I am to be blamed, however, it is only because I was not clear enough...
...You heard as well of the successes of our fighters in Stolac...
...The grim dimensions of this brotherhood was recently demonstrated by Fidel Castro when he invited Yasir Arafat to take a rest in Cuba following his exhaustive visit to New York...
...So far they have emerged only sporadically and in small numbers, but there are ample indications that they are potentially capable of fighting devastating battles in the heartlands of the West...
...This advancing front-line of established tyrants and aspiring terrorists (which, contrary to the Kremlinologists' predictions, has not lost but gained momentum since the Sino-Soviet split) has nothing to do with authentic-i.e...
...Solzhenitsyn's revelations about the subterranean realities of Communist totalitarianism pinpoint the eye of the storm that has hit the "domino" countries...
...Jeric's "late hero," General Mihajlovich...
...Nor were these only empty words: "You certainly heard of the latest successes of our fighters around Foca, Cajnice and Visegrad, under the leadership of Drazha Mihajlovich himself...
...Unfortunately, the leading TV network commentators of the past decade have refused to give these tormented, non-white peoples credit for knowing better than academic progressives and wealthy elitist revolutionaries of the West what is the lesser of the two painful evils confronting them...
...New York City Hrvoje Lun Warning Reading Donald Kirk's reminiscences about South Vietnam ("The Final Tragedy of Vietnam," NL, April 28), I couldn't help thinking of the largely ignored troublesome incidents that have been occurring closer to home than most of us probably realize...
...There is virtually no mystery behind this heartbreaking exodus...
...And further insurgent victories in the Middle East, Latin America and especially Asia (where the Communist hierarchies have never stopped venerating Stalin as a great leader and teacher) would surely impose upon the vanquished the same arbitrary laws, institutionalized horror, and destructive ideological absolutism that characterized the Soviet ruler's tyrannical regime...
...Ideological brothers of the Vietcong and the Khmer Rouge have been rampaging through South America and now control remote parts of Mexico...
Vol. 58 • May 1975 • No. 10
