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22 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1988
Holocaust Funds Held
By Right-Wing Cabal
ROBERT E. SEGAL
Special to The Jewish News
B
oston — Near the
George Washington
and Thomas Jefferson
memorials, on land donated
by the U.S. government, the
cornerstone for this nation's
Holocaust Memorial Museum
is now in place.
President Reagan, elo-
quently speaking at the Oct.
5 unveiling, referred to the
historic occasion as both sad-
dening and triumphant.
"It commemorates the
seriousness of our intention
as human beings, as
Americans, and in the case of
many here today, as Jews, to
keep the memory of the six
million fresh and enduring,"
he said.
So how shall this be achiev-
ed — this trumpet call for our
federal government to in-
culcate in the minds, and to
lodge forever in the hearts of
members of this generation
and of generations yet to
come, the reasons for the
calamity of Nazi-structured
genocide?
Can the government teach
the need to destroy at the
time of inception — at a beer
hall putsch, at a Klan cross
burning, or at a conclave of
Holocaust revisionist Aryan
Nations scoundrels — any at-
tempt by another clever and
hate-crazed admirer of Hitler
to try to replicate here in
America a Nazi-like "final
solution?"
Sad to report, one need on-
ly look near the site of the
planned U.S. Holocaust
Museum to find a scandalous
example of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Education's new ef-
fort to sabotage the kind of ef-
fective program for ac-
complishing the object ad-
vocted by Reagan.
Facing History and Our-
selves, a Brookline, Mass.-
based program, trained some
30,000 educators and 15,000
non-educators, who in turn
taught 450,000 students in 46
states.
The facts concerning this
new attempt to undermine
Facing History's exemplary
work were set forth by Ed
Vulliamy in the Washington
Post, the day before the cor-
nerstone of the Holocaust
Museum was put in place.
Mr. Vulliamy's expose
begins:
"A school history program
that focuses on the mass
murder of Jews and others
under the Third Reich has
been denied federal funding
by the Education Department
for a third consecutive year,
provoking allegations that
the department's stance is
the work of "right-wing" of-
ficials and advisers."
The article relates how Fac-
ing History was earlier refus-
ed federal funding and brand-
ed leftist, anti-war (of all
things), anti-hunting
(whatever that is) and offen-
sive to fundamentalists.
Max McClonkey, head of
the National Dissemination
Study Group which tried to
get Education Department
funds for a new Facing
History program, pointed out
that, in his judgment, "a nar-
row, far-right set of political
advisers" has been engaged
in political manipulation for
three years to see to it that
the Education Department
denies a Holocaust program.
Facing History sought a
$70,000 grant for a 1989 pro-
gram. It was the top-rated
project in the category
created by Education
Secretary William Bennett,
who left office in September.
Over this scandal hovers
the influence exerted on the
Education Department by
Phyllis Schlafly, whose
widely-read "Eagle Forum"
expounds such abrasive
rightist views that even some
of her fellow ideologues find
them offensive.
Three years ago, when the
president stressed the impor-
tance of Holocaust teachings,
Mrs. Schlafly told her
followers that elementary
school courses on the
Holocaust amounted to child
abuse. She savaged Facing
History as "deceitful in
design with the goal of chang-
ing young people's attitudes
on political and social issues?'
In 1986, two staff members
of the Department of Educa-
tion, Christina Price and
Shirley Curry, both faithful
devotees of Mrs. Schlafly, con-
demned Facing History and
its teaching materials as anti-
Christian. (Father Robert
Bullock, board chairman of
Facing History, is obviously of
a different mind.)
When the Price-Curry duo
descended to the depths of
scolding Facing History for
"failing to present the Nazi
and KKK point of view," the
New York Daily News gave
Education Department
superiors nightmares with a
banner headline: "Federal
Panel Calls Holocaust Course
Unfair 'lb Nazis," and pro-
ceeded to praise Facing
History.