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Aqua Glass • Steamist • Artistic Brass • The Broadway Collection • Bathroom Jewelry• Dornbracht • Bormix . 80 • Bormalux • 32 FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1987 L 4 O,10,000 Refreshingly Different Items AT HERALD WHOLESALE 20830 Coolidge Hwy. just north of 8 Mile Road 398-4560 in operation, even though it has meant a boycott of all Ford products in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. In recent months I have carefully scrutinized the operations and management policies of Ford Motor Company for any remnants of Henry Ford Senior's legacy of hatred. I have found none, and would hope that the sins of the grandfather revealed in this book are not visited upon the grand- sons nor upon the com- pany which bears the fami- ly name and which employs 230,000 people. Rather, this book can serve to more honestly define Henry Ford's place in the history of this cen- tury. It is an object lesson in misdirected power and the all-too-common error of allowing knowledge in one area to lend credibili- ty in another. Perhaps most important, this book may serve as another reminder of an era of the most heinous crime in recorded history. If we can- not understand Auschwitz, we must at least never forget the lesson of its causes and consequences. R Sanijura • Keuco • Auburn Brass • F 1 R • Monarch • Stanley • Broan • Nutone • Miami Carey • Franklin Brass • Colonial Bronze • Plexacraft • Koch & Lowy • Bates & Bates • Shulte • Kroin • Luwa • Phylrich • Jacuzzi • HOURS: 9-5:30 MON/FRI, 9-3 SAT OR CALL FOR A SPECIAL APPOINTMENT ANYTIME In atoning for the sins of its founder, Ford has adopted and adhered to Middle Eastern policies which have cost it hun- dreds of millions of dollars in lost sales and tens of millions of dollars in lost profits, and these figures will mount with each pass- ing year. Just as Ford Motor Com- pany has done more in behalf of Jewry than any other non-Jewish-owned company in the U.S., so has Henry Ford II done more for Jewry than any other gentile business figure. To his credit, he has never wavered in his decision to sacrifice the expanding Arab market. In 1967 he permitted his company to accept an award of merit from the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry for asembl- ing vehicles in Israel. Three years later he told a delegation of Jewish visitors to his office, Phil Slomovitz among them, that his only regret over his decision was "the harm im- posed on Ford's Arab dealers who were innocent victims:' In 1972, Ford visited his company's Nazareth assembly plant, whose 1,200 employees built commercial vehicles and the Escort car. "I have been a friend of Israel for many years," he told the transport minister, "and after my visit here, I am even a bigger friend!' It is not too much to say that Henry Ford II has done more for Jews than any other American gen- tile over the past four decades. He repeatedly has been honored for his ef- forts in behalf of Jewry. A few years ago, the Tech- nion established a Henry Ford II Chair in Transpor- tation, the first to be nam- ed for a non-Jew at the university. Ford was honored, said Evelyn de Rothschild, international chairman of Technion's Board of Governors, "in recognition of his many years of interest in the Technion, his opposition to the Arab boycott, and his support of Israel:' Almost all Jews ac- quainted with the Ford story, including those who have neither forgotten nor forgiven the first Henry Ford, are gratified by the friendliness and generosi- ty of the Ford family and the Ford Motor Company toward the Jewish com- munity since the late 1940s. "The grandchildren, and Mrs. Edsel, too," obseved Isidore Sobeloff, then the head of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation, "are just fine, just wonderful:' "The new generation of Fords," declared Phil Slomovitz in a statement typical of many he has made on the subject, "looks back at the era of their grandfather with a sense of deep regret, rejec- ting whatever smacked of prejudice:' Ford's involvement with Jews also is a prime exam- ple of the maxim that something good sometimes comes from something bad. Henry Ford's anti- Semitism was bad. But the Ford Motor Company's and Ford family's efforts to redress his wrongs are good.