European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday april 27, 1978 William Safire world turning Awa from current horror Lliam f. Buckley Abc to performed an enormous Public service in showing a dramatic version of the that service is being nit picked by viewers distressed at the need for commercial interruption by people who might have preferred a pure documentary that might have reached a Frac Tion of the audience and by a minority of jews who still Fly the Battle hag of Don t make nit picking ignores the Central ques Tion driven at least into nearly half of America s Homes where the hell was the res of the world when a part of the world was a hell the Best Way to find the answer about a previous generation s Lack of concern is to examine the turning away from horror prevalent in this generation.1. The soviet slave labor Camps. A former High official of the Cia tells me that he vividly recalls a briefing of several years ago showing the extent of the soviet slave labor program with a map pinpoint ing the scores of Camps in Eastern european throughout the user. This was not Guesswork As the soviets know we have High Altitude photographic surveillance detailing the Barracks and work areas of holocaust fails in several ways Al write having seen the first two thirds of a first night s portion of holocaust re g not to see the balance of it. The sections will appear after the final Epi i and regretfully will tug against a Able tidal wave of emotion so be it holocaust if it served to Galva the viewing Public against the continue of such practices As the nazis were1 of then it is justified and should be to regularly. Years ago a Little. Writer intellectual called Jack wrote an essay in which he made the ant Point that there is Only one Way in j the world can atone for the Holo and that is by pledging never again omit such a thing to happen. After Alle is no Means of undoing retroactively to the nazis did. We profit from remind to ourselves of what happened Only by re no that such a thing shall not happen. But Sutti things Are happening and have happened. Right now in Cambodia in pro portion to the population of that country More people Are being killed and tortured than jews under Hitler. Who has raised his voice in round numbers a dozen people the president of the United states who began his term of office by writing a letter to Sakharov in the soviet Union deploring the suppression of dissent steadfastly declines to comment on Cambodia or for that matter on Cambodia s godfather the people s Republic of China which give state banquets to the lord chief executioner of Cambodia pot pol. It in t Only Carter. His predecessor were grimly silent when the nigerians began their genocidal War against the ibo tribes in the biafran War. Shortly before in Ruanda and Burundi the dominant tribes All but eliminated the Competition with a thoroughness Adolph Eichmann would have envied. Is it supposed that holocaust after nine hours of television will fire the Public to protest effectively the events in Cambodia mos american liberals one thinks of senator Eugene Mccarty Are still too Busy deploring the cambodian incursion in 1970 which resulted in fewer innocent cambodians killed than innocent lebanese were killed by the survivors of the holocaust inthe recent operation against Lebanon to interest themselves in the wholesale massacres now going on. A decade ago playwright Ralph Hoch Huth arrested the moral attention of Broadway by writing a play asking whether the Pope had exerted himself sufficiently against nazi policies of extermination during the 40s. Hochhuth s Case against Pius Xii is not historically validated i.e., the Pope did exert himself. But what will Hochhuth s successor write a doze years from now if anyone thinks to ask the question what did anyone exercising temporal or moral influence do about Cam Bodia holocaust having predictably failed on this score the last episode will not be a stricture against permitting future Geno cide what other reason is there for it i saw the first two hours in the company of British historian Alistair Home author of the Best Selling a Savage War of peace on the algerian revolt. His observation is that holocaust shed no Light on the surviving question which in t what and How did the nazis do How did the jews re Spond but Why did the German people acquiesce the docudrama gives us Only a half horror so of the year 1935, nothing about the attitudes that crystallized in Germany after the Versailles treaty the inflation of the 1920s, the aimlessness of the Weimar re Public. If holocaust does not serve to in spirit the world to take seriously it rhetoric and its International conventions on the subject of genocide at least it might inquire As to the reasons for the German disaster. But nothing of this is apparent. There is instead the hot haste to get on with extensive treatments of the de gradation torture and killing of the jews and one wonders what is the Point in viewer s experiencing such pain although one cannot dispute the idealistic motives of the producers. Inevitably one wonders sadly at the objective causes of the event. As the reviewer in the new York times said of the Book version of holocaust " it is the War against the jews set to melodramatic music b it pos sible if the Auto Industry and airports could be successfully researched formats entertainment Why not the Holo Caust ova Milne Ion sur syndic to relax ivealway5 Farmed for peanut5, each one of those Camps. Why do we tacitly condone labor practice by helping the it a secret none of our inti ering sources and methods \ promised by making Public the p details we know of Camps and not even soviet dissident much As we do about the logistical Tion of All the Camps. The f photos and maps would i to the spirit of detente but it the world that the soviet system festering sores to hide. 2. The Slaughter in _. Taking the Low Side of the bes Tidi Amin Butcher of Central i murdered at least 150,000 Trivalas a result other Leaden of slightly embarrassed but nones publicly. Does the White House so Dermine internal settlements to publicly excoriate the and urge sanctions to help hardly. A . Company Sells Uganda its commercial and helps Supply its Pilot thereby helping build Amin Page airways Jamer Rochester n.y., who has Taf chief fund Raiser for House Thomas p. O Neill. James has been a most significant and fund Raiser for the Daniel Inouye a Hawaii chairman of the intelligence and a leading Light on the committee James Wilmot the speaker of the House p. Kennedy s old District one of Liberal in the nation is rarely i about his close association with who helps one of the bloodiest the world stay in power.3. The harassment of the communist supplied Iraq with the Connivance of Titi Iran has been systematically i and destroying the culture of the kurd who Only want a degree my so As to continue their div Libut the ., which secretly the Shah of Iran to guarantee kurd in return for a 1973revolt, has washed its one of the men who about Harold Saunders is oaf ant Secretary of state and will dying Leader of toe kurd Barzal to make personal president Carter. 4. The Bloodbath in in terms of numbers of dered this generation s rival Hitler is the Leader of co menu Dia pol pot. A population of was death marched out of Pismany of the cambodians Beta of mixed blood marked or cause they Are part vietnamese where Are All the people War March around with those slope ing signs in televised Dotti inspire the United one ambassador Israel s Speaks against the Gen Odd m Dia. The United states Ian Drew Young cannot Bra upset third world Cor ing investigation and Slaughter to the shame of i sits silent As hundreds of human beings die. Therefore ask not How ration could tolerate the i million jews on a smaller a aeration is doing just Dandy w lines. The world still sees vk2lwhich should help us under Taay Rae Lis Are not about to the become victims again
