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t was a surprise. No one
would believe the
registering of an election
that approves anti-Semitic
animosities. The Louisiana
experience remains an ad-
monition to be aware of how
and under what conditions'
we live.
Only four days before the
Louisiana election, Anthony
Lewis opened his heart in a
New York Times (Nov.11)
essay titled "It Can Happen
Here. David Duke and the
Politics of Hatred." He
stated:

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1991

I watched David Duke
on NBC's "Meet the
Press," and -I was
frightened. Here was a
man who two years ago
was selling pamphlets
from his office in the
Louisiana Legislature.
Now he was a candidate
for governor _ with a
good chance to win . and
he was talking blandly
about the trouble with
welfare and affirmative
action.
If the politics of hatred
is going to take power in
America at the end of the
20th century, that is the
form in which it will come:
not rabble-rousing but
cold words and profes-
sions of Christian
redemption...
He made his celebration
of Hitler, his hatred of
Jews and blacks, his
leadership of the Ku Klux
Klan all seem long ago
and far away __ as if they
had something to do with
someone else who had in-
habited his body .. .
But in 1989, when he
was 39 years old, he spoke
admiringly of Josef
Mengele ...
In 1985 he said of the
Holocaust : " I tend to
believe it didn't happen
• • • It takes Jewish
Hollywood to make
crematoria into, quote,
ovens" ...
He said : " Jews are not
good Americans. They
have no understanding of
what America is " .. .
How could such a per-
son become a serious po-
litical force in the United
States? How could anyone
believe his pious asser-
tions that his years of pro-
fessional hate were
"youthful indiscretion"?

Let us continue discussion
with the warning that what
happened in Louisiana has
application to all of us as
long as it affects the intellect
of America. The fact that in-
humanly motivated pro-
paganda denying the Holo-
caust finds support and con-
tinued propagation in uni-
versities, on the faculties
and campuses is an indict-
ment of occurrences that
should never be permitted.
There are evidences of bias
similarly reprehensible, and
warnings from Louisiana
must be related to similar
inhuman outrages.
For many of us in Mich-
igan, it is sad that the uni-
versity newspaper in Ann
Arbor should have embraced
lies and hatreds by endors-
ing the Nazi line of denying
the Holocaust. That there
should be some Jews giving
comfort to hate-mongering is
difficult to confront.
In several analytical
columns, Anthony Lewis
showed how anti-Semitism
has almost embraced the en-
tire post-war European era.
He showed how racism has
become a menace every-
where, including this coun-

try. He warns us to be " on
guard" against threats to
human freedom. There is a
comment in his column of
Nov. 15 which contains a
statement worth consider-
ing:

What solace can we find
in all this, what hope for
some solution to the racial
and ethnic conflicts in the
world?
Sir Isaiah Berlin, the great
English philosopher,
discusses the question in an
interview in the fall issue of
New. Perspective Quarterly,
and he offers no solace.
"Nationalism is not res-
urgent. It never died.
Neither did racism. They are
the most powerful
movements in the world to-
day."
Whatever repetition is in-
cluded here of well-known
facts should be taken in the
seriousness of the admoni-
tion to be "on guard." For all
of us there is the command
never . to lend comfort to
hatred and bigotry. Let this
be a lesson in the protection
of the dignity, honor and
self-respect of our teachers,
our university faculties, col-
lege newspapers and the
campuses they serve. 0 .

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Israel Honors
Czechoslovak Veterans

Prague (JTA) — A group of
elderly veterans of the
Czechoslovak army and air
force were honored at the
Israeli Embassy here last
week for having trained
recruits for the Haganah 43
years ago.
"We want to thank
Czechoslovak friends who
helped the State of Israel to
be born and to survive,"
Israeli Ambassador Yoel
Sher told a group of retired
generals, colonels and other
officers who trained the
pilots, parachutists and
other soldiers of what would
ultimately become the
Israeli army.
The training was done on
Czechoslovak soil.
At the time the Nov. 27
ceremony was held, 14
former Czechoslovak officers
who had participated in the
training had been identified.
Others are still being sear-
ched for.
Mr. Sher pointed out that
the event took place after

decades of Soviet-imposed
hostility between former
Communist bloc countries
and the Jewish state. In
light of that history, the
ceremony was an especially
"marvelous event," the
Israeli ambassador said.
Military and Haganah
medals and diplomas were
handed to the Czechoslovak
officers by Chaim Gouri, an
Israeli poet, journalist and
filmmaker who himself
received his parachutist
training in Czechoslovakia
in 1948.
He still remembers the
Czech command words used
in the training, and he
recalled its rigors.
A retired Israeli air force
colonel who was in Prague
representing an Israeli
manufacturing company
told the gathering he had
just been given the oppor-
tunity to sit once more in the
pilot's cabin at the same air-
port where he received his
training 43 years ago.

