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Children and Grandchildren:

Remembering Genocide and the Holocaust

Is Fascism Dead
In Eastern Europe?

ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

Special to The Jewish News

I

Inge Auerbacher

Louise Manoogian Simone

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FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1990

n The Nation, writers
Chip Berlet and Holly
Sklar suggest that fas-
cists, covert or otherwise,
may try to grab power as
communism wanes in east-
ern Europe.
In recent months, write
Berlet and Sklar, there has
been an attempt in Hungary
to lift the ban on the pro-
Nazi Arrow Cross Party.
And in Yugoslavia, "ethno-
nationalist parties of Ser-
bians, Croatians and Slove-
nians with a distinctly neo-
Nazi tinge have already
been launched."
"As the new wave of na-
tionalism sweeps Europe,"
say Berlet and Sklar, "it is
essential that fascist forces
be exposed; otherwise, they
may turn the dream of self-
determination into a night-
mare."
Triggering the authors'
warning is their account of
activities by a convicted
Nazi collaborator in eastern
Europe — and even inside
the Bush administration.
Laszlo Pasztor, they write,
spent two years in prison for
Arrow Cross activities dur-
ing the Second World War,
including leading a Nazi-
armed paramilitary unit
that toppled a Hungarian
government in 1944 and
replacing it with a puppet
regime. In the 1950s,
Pasztor settled in the United
States and eventually joined

the Republican Party's eth-
nic outreach division. In
1971, he became chairman of
the Republican Heritage
Groups Council and, say
Berlet and Sklar, "passed
over more moderate ethnic
organizations in favor of
those led by individuals tied
to former Nazi puppet
governments in Bulgaria,
Slovakia, Croatia and
Byelorussia. He recruited
racists, neo-fascists and anti-
Semites — even a former S.S.
officer."
When the press revealed
Republican anti-Semitic and
fascist ties in Bush's 1988
campaign, Pasztor was sup-
posedly removed from the
campaign's Coalition of
American Nationalities.
But, referring to an article
last year in Midstream,
Berlet and Sklar say Pasztor
was invited to a State
Department briefing a few
days after Bush's inaugura-
tion. Pasztor also told the
two writers that he had
helped the Bush White
House hold an April 1989
briefing on Hungary.
Pasztor now translates and
evaluates grant requests
from Hungarian and
Czechoslovak groups for the
Congressionally-funded Na-
tional Endowment for
Democracy. While recently
in Hungary, he met with the
leaders of several new polit-
ical parties, including the
Hungarian Democratic
Forum, which Berlet and
Sklar call "a group in which
anti-Semitism resonat '

The current direction of
world opinion and history is
working against Israel
holding onto the West Bank
and Gaza, according to
Lawrence Meyer, editor of
the national weekly edition
of the Washington Post.
In a lengthy column in the
Post, Meyer contends that
"the idea sustaining [Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak]
Shamir and his supporters is
the idea of the Land of
Israel, including the land of
Judea and Samaria —the
West Bank. The idea sus-
taining the Palestinians now
is independence and self-
determination."
"Which idea," asks Meyer,
"is more likely to attract
support and sympathy" in

today's world, a world in
which even South Africa's
president envisions a
peaceful solution between
blacks and whites and even
some hard-line Communist
governments peacefully
relinquish power,
Noting that Israel has
been groping since 1967 for
some way to handle the West
Bank and Gaza, Meyer says
the "conventional explana-
tion for the stagnation in
Israel is that the govern-
ment is divided because the
population is divided. But
political leadership isn't
simply a matter of winning
elections. It also involves
where a nation's best inter-
ests lie and guiding it in that
direction."

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