December 20, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

So much has piled up on me during these past two weeks of CHRC hearings that some material deserving exposure and circulation has been put on the back burner and is only now being sorted out by me.

One relatively small but, I think, significant item is that more and more people in Canada are beginning to see the so-called "Holocaust" as a brazen political tool rather than an emotional issue deserving utmost reverence and are beginning to express their resentment openly.

Here is a letter by H. Clifford Chadderton, Chair of the National Council of Veterans Associations of Ottawa, Canada. It was published by the Toronto Sun as a Letter to the Editor, December 14, 1997, and is, hence, in the public domain.

It is titled "A General Rebuttal." I bring it here in full:

"General Ramsey Withers argues for inclusion of a Holocaust gallery in the Canadian War Museum (Saturday Sun, December 7) He cites a precedent: the plans adopted by the Imperial War Museum in London."

To support his argument, he quotes Field Marshall Lord Brammall at length. One excerpt: "Nazi death camps throughout Europe. . . more than anything, had convinced them (our fighting forces) that they were fighting a just war."

In rebuttal we suggest:

Canada recognized the need to fight in 1939 and we were 5,000 miles from the nearest Nazi.

Is it reasonable that, just because the Brits are doing it, we should?

If we are going to follow other countries, why not the world-famous War Museum in Canberra? The Australian museum has no difficulty in attracting ample visitors. The Holocaust is not mentioned.

Who in Canada ever heard of Field Marshall Lord Brammall?

General Withers fails to mention that the architectural plan for the Imperial War Museum shows that the Holocaust Gallery is part of a larger exhibit of "Total War."

Having regard for the terrible loss of British lives (military and civilian) inflicted by our other enemy - the Japanese - is it a reasonable assumption that in their "total war" exhibits the Brits will include the rape of Nanking and the slaughter on the Burma Siam Railway Bridge on the River Kwai?

Gen. Withers fails to mention that the Imperial War Museum is already a model of its kind for the world. The Brits are not seeking to upgrade the military side of their museum. That has already been done. In our case, the Canadian War Museum has been sadly neglected for years.

Ramsey Withers has toiled long and hard to upgrade our Canadian War Museum. Many will find it rather strange, however, that in the 1991 task force, of which he was signatory, no mention was made of the Holocaust gallery.

How does Ramsey Withers rationalize the fact that the major 1991 recommendation of his task force was ignored? That recommendation? Separate the governance of the Canadian War Museum from the Museum of Civilization which he now seems to champion at all costs.

Before we start including exhibits of a political nature regarding genocides, we should make sure we are first meeting our museum's mandate - the preservation of Canada's own military heritage, which in reality, has little to do with the Nazi death camps. The extermination of Jews, Gypsies etc. was planned long before Canada went to war. Few if any of my fellow veterans knew of the Holocaust until the cease-fire of VE-Day."

Revisionists will say this gentleman is on the way of freeing himself from the mental stranglehold of the Big H. Now all he needs to do is read a book like Roger Garaudy's, and he will resent political intrusion of special interest groups into the military history of his country and his fellow veterans even more.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"In its last 2 issues the Toronto Globe & Mail (our NYT) has carried no less than 9 letters re the Mossad passport caper: all more or less negative to the interests of the Tribe.

The prevailing mood has been one of bitter--almost ugly--cynicism. Perfect soil for breeding skeptics."

(A ZGram reader commenting on the Canadian grassroots movement resenting the Zionist influence in Canada)

Comments? E-Mail: irimland@cts.com

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