European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes August 1977 James Reston Caesars Tell us a Bruf suspicion question will you identify yourself answer 1 am Caesars Good one to mid of me Hal i was above sus l i know what is said of but off the were you my afraid your fashion has gone out of style in the last 100 and i want to understand did you Ever know a banker named Bert Lance a in my a lady  know a banker and be above q pkg you Ever have an overdraft at columns comments i the Bank of Rome or at any other Bank a Julius and i owned All the q that Why 1 i repeat did you Ever fiddle wit the kinds sort p borrow them for a while a certainly Nero was the Only tiddler we had in those and during they called her purr for lets keep Nero out of i dont want stories but did you Ever have a correspondent relationship with the first Bank of Chicago or the manufacturers Hanover Trust in new York Ano q or a correspondent relay Enship with any of their officials a i didst like but i did Corre Spond with he was a Beautiful Man and wrote the nicest q and j thus approved a Yuu see Julius had this idea that i should net Only do everything that was but convince everybody else that 1 was not even tempted to do anything that rather hard now that its All t can Tell you that being above suspicion was not i got a lot of up boldly out of but it was no and it want Yau mean Julius want above suspicion a he bum the roman Empire on sus and the Way he carried on alter work when he was away from i want to Tell 6 never were you Ever investigated a my whole life was one Long invest 1 told Gloria Steinem about this in another interview awhile and that when she started the women liberation q let me ask you an iffy if in handling he Caesar family Bank a you had sort of shifted your banking relationships around and borrowed Money on the old mans Power and what would Julius have done a he would have tossed me to the q but suppose the roman forum had said that you haunt done anything Crimi but had merely been a Little careless with your unsafe and unsound would Julius have said he was proud of you ask the silliest he had this Plain idea it 1  bal Ance a 1  be put in charge of the budget of the roman q what an original Man anything else a you everybody was Render ing unto Caesar and unto you nobody was even remembering cae sars wife you i resented q on the Why do you keep saying you know this and you know that and keep on if i know Why bother Bot what do Yew the Kaboom a Caesar who wants everybody in be above suspicion and then praises them when they Arent a thais us Way men Are always proclaiming Virtues they dont and Teleg would of the practices Treyve de q sound a Little a just you see i mar ried Julius in 5s after All ohm Yean above tried id we my if he went to the Senate on the Isic of March with a roughnecks they murder and they but be  so t have a prob Lem Why Are intelligent people such Dum Mies Ipp William Buckley a warning gains if  Hitler 1 dont 00this anymore John Lukacs has written a stirring message to american conservatives warn ing again Al a massive attempt to rehabilitate Adolf this Effort has been undertaken by the British writer David in the Book hitlers which is the cause of a roaring controversy in great Britain and Europe and a considerable controversy in the United Lukacs is a greatly talented a Man of conservative disposition who feels be has a stake in the conservative move ment and worries that such a Book As rings will have a harmful influence on Why because he explains most conservatives of the older generation opposed american intervention in the second world in the group that opposed intervention there to a one set did so because they were traditionally opposed to meddling in foreign bad not for gotten Theta titty at the first world and were horrified at the thought of an Alli Ance with the soviet but a few others and Lukacs names Charles Lind Bergh among them admired hitlers and thought it simply a bad ides to make War on this is clearly the position of his in the opinion of is a major act of historical lers unlike irvings earlier contains hundreds of errors wrong wrong and what is statements about including that did not really take these Are not the result of inadequate research they Are not technical mistakes or they Are the result of Tow dominant tendency of the author a Lukacs is horrified at the Prospect that Irving will persuade conservatives eager for retroactive justification that Hitler was really it was miters associates who were so evil Irving denies there is any documentary evidence inking Hitler directly with the program to exterminate the it is True that up until a Point in the Many who were isolationists were making excuses for the psychological Pur pose being the obvious one of preventing inflammation of Public sentiment against him lest we be stampeded into the other Side engaged in the same kind of thing with respect to who was held to be innocent d All charges lev Elled against indeed the uni Lauon of Stalin Arnom american left Only when Teui Schev himself decided topple the myth in it is a recurrent Many pro letters against the Vietnam War draped themselves in the nag of Mortti and Sang the praises Hoch and such As Ramsey dark and Jane Fonda lec tured to american audiences the humane treatment of prisoners of War in but Here is a Point that Lukacs what one should despise is which is associated with glue i Roost y his genocidal in the fast analysis it makes very Little difference whether the idea of lulling a race o people originated in hitlers or even if he was the Man responsible for executing that what does Nutter u that those policies should continue to be i am persuaded that Hitler was personally re but 1 am not the lean fright end by any hypothetical possibility that a David Irving should end by proving Hitler personally innocent so Long As the evil of where you get into trouble is with those who explain that it was in tact necessary to Deal thusly with Germany jews or that Stu in could hardly be blamed for cracking a few eggs in order to make an it is the apologists for the rather than the revisionists who desire to shift the allo cation of that we need to since there is none of this going on with re Spect to David irvings however does not greatly disturb the moral to Opi Ihmud he quid Lii m Unni and w hot Imu in no Way Arm a