• Friday, August 1, 1981
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Western Nations Must Develop Anti-Terrorist Consensus
By FRANKLIN LITTELL
National Institute
on the Holocaust
PHILADELPHIA — In a
gaffe which must surely
rank with history's major
howlers, the British gov-
ernment has so offended
Spanish sensibilities that
King Juan . Carlos and
Queen Sophia decided not to
attend the wedding of Pr-
ince Charles and Lady Di-
ana. The offense given was
the choice of Gibraltar, a
piece of rock disputed be-
Teen Spain and the British
__ingdom, as the starting
place for the honeymoon.
To most of us commoners
the absence of some member
of Europe's shrinking nobil-
ity from the wedding will
hardly cause pain. When
the American republic was
founded, all hereditary rul-
ers could have been missing
from all occasions — and
our forefathers would have
cheered.
Since 1776, however, two
different kinds of monar-
chies have developed — one
type by no means incompat-
ible with liberty and popu-
lar sovereignty. And there
have also appeared new
forms of dictatorship and
misrule which make the re-
gime of George III, against
which the Americans rebel-
led, look positively benevo-
lent.
Today, in a world
where most nations have
no standards of human
liberty and self-
government whatever,
constitutional monar-
chies — actually gov-
erned in the main by par-
liaments — are an excel-
lent form of government.
There are, to be sure, old-
fashioned absoslute
monarchs in many back-
ward countries, and they
are frequently guilty of the
savageries which have led
lovers of liberty and human
dignity to overthrow them
and set up republics. Such
despotisms today are Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait and the
Trucial States — where a
person loyal to the Ameri-
can tradition can only hope
that a republican revolution
will be successful before
things get so bad the Com-
munists have a shot at it.
But the parliamentary
governments of the Nether-
lands, England, Sweden
and Denmark, for example,
deserve the good will and
support of lovers of liberty
and self-government —
especially when one of them
comes under fire from ter-
rorists or other tools of dic-
tatorships or despotisms.
For where there were
-,nce only hereditary gov-
ernments, mostly arbitrary,
and a few struggling young
republics, there are now
forms of tyranny far worse
even than arbitrary rulers
who think they rule by di-
vine right. The most com-
mon of these new forms of
tyranny are two: fascist and
Communist. The former
Nazi Third Reich and its col-
laborating satellites, and
the Communist USSR and
its satellites, are far more
dangerous systems of re-
pression and murder than
.
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even Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
Qatar or Morocco.
Under King Juan Car-
los's patronage Spain has
been making a remarkable
transition from Franco's
fascism to the practices of a
constitutional monarchy
with a powerful parliament.
The difficulties have been
enormous, economic and
religious and political.
With room to breathe
for the first time in de-
cades, some sections
have attempted to break
away from national di-
rection: terrorist move-
ments, assisted in part by
the international ter-
rorist networks, have as-
sassinated prominent
political figures and sha-
ken the new regime. Most
serious, two fascist con-
spiracies have been nar-
rowly prevented from
overthrowing parliamen-
tary government and re-
establishing a dictator-
ship.
That they both failed was
in large part due to the
courage and loyalty of King
Juan Carlos.
An England whose cities
are being burned down by
urban guerrillas, whose
police and public order are
being whipsawed between
fascist "skinheads" and
mobs led by Marxist cadres,
might well consider that re-
publics and constitutional
monarchies ought to be sen-
sitive to -each others' needs
and concerns.
The enemies that are as-
saulting liberty and self-
government in a most
dangerous way are trans-
War Criminal
Has Citizenship
Revoked by U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Karl Linnas, who was ac-
cused by the Federal gov-
ernment of supervising and
participating in the execu-
tion of prisoners in the con-
centration camp in Tartu,
Estonia, during World War
II and of hiding this infor-
mation when he entered the
United States after the war,
had his citizenship revoked
last Friday.
The revocation decision
was issued by Judge Jacob
Mishler of the Federal Dis-
trict Court in Westbury,
N.Y.
If linnas, a native of Es-
tonia who is now a resident
of Greenlawn, L.I., fails to
appeal or is unsuccessful in
an appeal, the Department
of Justice would attempt to
deport him. A Justice De-
partment official said he
would not speculate as to
which country the U.S.
might seek to deport Linnas
should expulsion proceed-
ings be initiated.
Linnas, a draftsman,
entered the U.S. in 1951 and
obtained his citizenship in
1960. He was tried in absen-
tia in 1962 in Estonia and
sentenced to death for the
crimes he had committed in
Tartu. When Linnas
entered the U.S. he told
immigration officials that
he had been a university
student in Tartu from 1940
to 1943.
national and international,
in both strategy and prac-
tice. They must be con-
fronted by allies that stand
shoulder to shoulder.
Maybe the British gaffe
simply means that their
Foreign Office is as in-
competent as our State
Department. Didn't any-
one in the Foreign Office
register a thought about
Gibraltar? Maybe the an-
swer is for "Lord Haw
Haw II" (Carrington),
who has been rushing
about Europe to sell ap-
peasement of the PLO to
European Common Mar-
ket countries, to stay
home and build up a
competent shop — one in
which lovers of liberty
and self-government
everywhere can put their
trust.
In any case, the nations
that have governments that
are either republics or con-
stitutional monarchies need
to develop some real cooper-
ation and mutual support.
They need to agree upon
joint measures to crush ter-
rorism.
They need to agree upon
joint action in emergency,
so that a citizen of any one of
them can count upon the
protection of each and all.
They need to set up, as Dr.
Gideon Hausner has
pointed out in an important
Israeli Students
Get Scholarships
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Scholarships ranging from
400 to 3,200 Shekels ($35-
$265) have been given to
349 Jerusalem high school
and vocational schools stu-
dents from poor families for
lessons, books, clothing and
other school expenses in the
coming academic year.
The money is from the
Mrs. Walter Rothschild
Scholarship Fund which
annually provides $25,000
for this purpose. The fund is
administered jointly by the
Joint Distribution Commit-
tee in Israel and the Israel
Association of Community
Centers.
would be good if they would
learn to rejoice — and not
have a nervous collapse —
when the forces of the free
world score victories
against terrorist bands
(e.g., Entebbe) or terrorist
governments (e.g., the Iraqi
atom bomb factory).
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French Officials
to Visit Arabs
PARIS (JTA) —
President Francois Mitter-
rand will pay an official
visit to Saudi Arabia next
month, his first trip to the
Middle East since his elec-
tion in May. Official sources
added that Foreign Minis-
ter Claude Cheysson will
visit Jordan later this
month for talks with King
Hussein and members of his
government. It will be
Cheysson's first trip to the
Middle East since he be-
came Foreign Minister.
Mitterrand promised dur-
ing his campaign to visit Is-
rael at the earliest opportu-
nity but Cheysson last week
told Israeli correspondents
that the trip "could not take
place immediately after the
Tammuz and Beirut bomb-
ings." The minister said at
the time that no date for the
president's trip to Israel has
been set and that this will
have to wait "appropriate
circumstances."
Cheysson also ex-
plained that the bomb-
ings have prevented the
establishment of an in-
timate Franco-Israeli
dialogue" which is being
postponed until calm re-
turns to the area.
paper on eliminating inter=
national terrorism, mobile
strike forces for joint action
against terrorist stron-
gholds and improvizations.
It would be good if our dip-
lomats would develop some
instincts for our allies' sen-
sibilities. Beyond that, it
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