A smorgasbord of news items, all showing how the war supposedly finished in 1945 is still raging on.
* The Jewish Telegraphic Agency in its "News at a Glance" section, also today's date, has an interesting paragraph:
"The American Jewish Congress called on American leaders to reject the views of presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan, who questioned in a recent book whether the United States should have fought Nazi Germany. In an ad in Wednesday's New York Times, the group accused Buchanan of becoming "the spokesman for a virulent cadre of extremists and revisionists who insist on ignoring the entire point of the 20th Century's greatest challenge to mankind."
* Austrian "far-right" leader Jorg Haider landed in similarly hot water. "Anti-Nazi protesters" forced him to cancel a news conference at a London hotel because of anti-Nazi protesters. According to the JTA, (same date)
". . . (s)everal protesters representing Britain's Anti-Nazi League forced their way to the fourth floor of the Mayfair Intercontinental Hotel on Wednesday, where the briefing was to be held, prompting the hotel to cancel the event."
* According to an Associated Press excerpt, reported on today's Infobeat,
"U.S. officials allowed Nazi loot from a train out of Hungary to be sold, taken by American generals or turned over to Austria instead of returned to the Jews from whom it was confiscated during World War II, a presidential commission concluded Thursday.
"Some valuable items seized from the Hungarian gold train nine days after the May 7, 1945, Allied victory in Europe were put up for auction in New York, and less valuable goods were sold in the U.S. Army Exchange, the commission staff said in a report.
"The Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States called it "an example of an egregious failure of the United States to follow its own policy regarding restitution of Holocaust victims' property after World War II."
Two items from the Arizona Jewish Post of October 8, 1999:
* Home Depot seems to have set a new precedent. The home improvement chain paid $50,000 to settle a law suit by a Seattle man who claimed to have been fired because he was Jewish. His story is that he had to suffer a number of anti-semitic slurs, and when he registered a complaint with his supervisor, he was fired.
* The Anti-Defamation League, for quite a while on the hot seat because it had illegally spied on American citizens and was facing a class action suit as a result, has "reached a final settlement" with "Arab Americans, African Americans, native Americans and civil rights group." No amount was named, but the agreement contains ". . . an injunction whereby the ADL will purge certain information, such as criminal arrest cards and Social Security numbers, from any files it holds on the plaintiffs."
David Goldstein, the ADL's attorney, stressed that ". . . by agreeing to the injunction, the ADL in no way admits guilt or any illegal activity."
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Thought for the Day:
"Some call it Marxism I call it Judaism."
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