I PURELY COMMENTARY I Kristallnacht Continued from Page 2 c_, 50%40% OFF ALL NAME BRANDS • Vertical Blinds • Levolor Blinds • Pleated Shades • Wood Blinds 21728 W. Eleven Mile Rd. Harvard Row Mall Southfield, Ml 48076 Free Professional Measure at No Obligation Free in Home Design Consulting Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10-5 Thursday 10-8 352-8622 New Rochester Hills 651-5009 Mobs in front of the burning synagogue in Bamberg, Bavaria. Jewish lackays had been put. Yet he went on to assure the Minister that: "I will not dispute for one mo- ment the state's right to fight Jewry as a dangerous element!' Figured Woman SUGAR TREE PLAZA 6209 Orchard Lake Rd. West Bloomfield, Just N. of Maple Rd. 851.8001 END YOUR ROOFING PROBLEMS THROUGH CRAFTSMANSHIP Woolf Roofing & Maintenance Inc. A Third Generation Roofing Family in Detroit Commercial - Industrial — High Rises Single-Ply and Built-Up Systems Fully Insured Member 5-20 Year Warranties 18161 W. 13 Mile Rd. National Roofing Sheet Metal Fabrication in Southfield Contractors Association Free Inspections 646-2452 , 40 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1988 For a man so committed to conservative Christian traditions of kostility toward the Jews it was bound to be difficult to delineate the rules of fair play and to lay down clear guidelines for Christians. With laudable individual exceptions the Jews were given neither succour nor support, let alone active neighbourly love, by either Catholics or Protestants. The recorded crime is the terrifying agony of the Holocaust. The Deutches Allgemaines Sonntagsblatt in- dictment is evidence that keeps accumulating of an un- concern by an entire nation when humanity's heart and soul were rampaged and mankind's conscience was transformed into a gutter. The confession now heard invites a new treatment of the conscience of every human be- ing. Kristallnacht is the Ger- man term for what had occur- red. The humanized factor of it cries out as a horrification of its shamefulness. Submis- sion to such beastialities with very little to condemn it is why mankind is always on trial every time there is the very mention of Kristallnacht. Exposing Coughlin T he American Experi- ence" televised docu- mentary about radio priest Charles E. Coughlin has much merit as a recollec- tion of the venom that was in- jected into social and political thinking and action by a Catholic cleric. It merely alluded to the anti-Semitism of a rabble rouser who poison- ed the minds of millions of listeners to his pi-ograms un- til he was finally curbed by the Church and was sent back to active preaching in his Royal Oak, Mich., chapel. Producer Iry Drasnin has exposed the menance of Coughlinism properly. It is a subject of such an immense hatred that it could not be covered fully in a single one- hour program. It needs more extensive elaboration on the anti-Semitic aspect of an alar- ming chapter in American social-religious-political experiences. The Coughlin prejudices drew many to his bigoted ranks; there was so much hatred broadcast by the radio priest that the Church was hesitant to curb him. The road that led to it is another chapter in that experience.