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Press carried the actual facts in
the case. It is not to the credit of
those who guided the President
along his German treks. Under
the headline "Reagan Cited Girl
Opposed to His Visit: Teenager
Critical of Bitburg Decision," the
Washington Post carried this
story bylined Associated Press:
A 13-year-old Jewish girl
cited by President Reagan as
supporting his decision to lay a
wreath at Bitburg cemetery
honoring "the future of Ger-
many" said that she opposed
his visit to the military
graveyard where Waffen SS
troops are buried among other
German soldiers.
Beth Flom of Marlboro
Township, N.J., said that in a
telex she sent to Reagan on
April 21, she made it clear she
disapproved of his decision to
visit Bitburg. She suggested
that if he made the visit, the
wreath should be placed "in
honor of the future of Ger-
many."
During a speech at the U.S.
air base in Bitburg after the
wreath-laying, Reagan said:
"One of the many who wrote
me about this visit was a young
woman who had recently be'en
bat mitzvahed. She urged me
to lay the wreath at Bitburg
cemetery in honor of the future
of Germany, and that is what
we have done."
Dale Petroskey, a White
House assistant press secre-
tary, said yesterday that Rea-
gan was referring to Flom's
telex.
"He didn't do everything
that Beth Flom wanted him to
do," Petroskey said. "He didn't
cancel his trip to the cemetery
. . . He did at least heed her
wishes and lay the wreath in
honor of the future of Ger-
many." Flom said she believes
that Reagan used her com-
ments "out of context." "The
way it sounds, it could be taken
that I urged him to go to Ger-
many also. I didn't," she said in
a telephone interview.
Flom's letter said in part:
"I have read that you have
tried to overcome the protests
by also visiting a concentra-
tion camp. When that didn't
still the protests, you then said
you would lay the wreath in a
cemetery in honor of the inno-
cent Germans....
"Since your other ap-
proaches were unsuccessful,
might I respectfully suggest
that it would be fitting that you
lay the wreath in honor of the
future of Germany."
She said that would "help to
place the past behind" and
"not degrade the feelings of all
those Jews who suffered
through the many years of tor-
ture."
Some may say, "Why rake up
unnecessary wounds?", to
which should be given this
addendum:
When the President mentioned
a 16-year-old youth who is among
the buried in the Bitburg cemet-
ery as an example that Germans
also suffered from Nazism, there
was a middle-aged man in a group
listening to his speech, and he
wiped away tears, with a com-
ment: "My brother was also 16,
my sister was 15. Both are in the
Auschwitz ashes . . . how do we
mourn, how do we equate . . . is my
President equating?"
Need anything else be added to
the sad events transplanted from
the past?
Armenia .. .
Among Horrors
Of 'Never Forget'
A debate is still raging over the
pending Genocide Convention
legislation in the U.S. Senate. The
basic principle is subjected to
shocking confusions, and there is
more fear lest guilt may some day
be charged against this nation
rather than the concern that all
crimes on national scales should
be outlawed, as in the Genocide
Convention.
Therefore, there is also a re-
vived debate over the guilt in the
mass murder of Armenians 70
years ago. Fear of diplomatic
obstructions with Turkey may be
interfering with an American dec-
laration of sympathy with the
Armenians and the recognition of
a massive crime unhesitatingly to
be condemned.
Now there are defenders of
Turkey, in the objections being
expressed to the Armenian
demonstrations demanding that
the horrors of 1915 should not be
forgotten-. If there is a defense for
Turkey, it must come from the
Turks themselves with measures
of recantation. Meanwhile, the
protests must be heard. Pending
legislation expressing contempt
for all such outrages should be
adopted, even if the White House
is reluctant to share in such con-
demnations. Therefore, share
appreciation for this editorial in
the New York Times entitled "In-
convenience Versus Armenians":
President Reagan's failure
to grasp the power of remem-
brance has gotten him into
fresh trouble. He now asks
Congress to defeat a joint reso-
lution that would designate
next April 24 as a day of re-
membrance honoring Arme-
nian victims of a genocidal
massacre and dispersion in
1915. The President contends
that the observance would
harm relations with an impor-
tant ally and, inadvertently,
reward terrorism.
This reasoning is bitterly re-
sented by law-abiding Arme-
nians, whose ancestors were
killed or driven into exile by
the Ottoman regime. Speaking
for them is George Deukme-
jian, Governor of California:
"We recognize that Turkey is
a military ally of the United
States, but a mature society
should be able to admit its past
mistakes.
"Some may ask us, why
should we be so concerned
about a tragedy which oc-
curred 70 years ago? The an-
swer lies in the events that
have happened since.. . . A ter-
rible pattern has repeated it-
self over and over again. Hitler
decided he could get away
.