European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May columns William Buckley enough about Bif Burg the jiving need our help can you make any sense of it forty years after fighting a great War in which there were close to i million we Defeated we went on to Politi Cally and the democratic rebirth of on half of the German the other half we let the soviet Union take and it is today a state not significantly different from what it would have been if Hitler had continued to Rule Over there is no political vice practice under Hitler that is not also practice under the German proconsul of Sta Lin and his the genocide is though the antisemitism is at the commemoration of communist officials made no mention of the jews As special victims of that in various gulag no one puts at under 20 million the victims of gulag others arrive at plausible figures As High As 50 there has not been a revival of nazi sentiment in West and explicit pro nazism there is at the Crank the equivalent of Kun flux klan activities in the United and yet there is a National juror Over an american at the beckoning of a Christian democratic West German visiting a military graveyard containing the bodies of German 3 percent of whom were members of the two things Are significant about Hitler and his death the first is that Hitler was Hitler reminding us of the Long reach of human the second is that by act of sacrifice and we stopped now although there is no revival of Hill Crisp in there is Hill Crisp abounding except that it goes by another name at this the soviet state is enforcing its will on the afghan people by the use of  methods the use even of chemical minor efforts by neighbouring Pakistan to provide Refuge for some of Gorbachev victims is met by direct threats against Pakistan by the soviet the government does Little to help and whatever we we do apol in the same people who gave us Castro in and who pursue and kill afghans who wish to be strike their and the House of representatives denies the motion to help that Little band of dissidents who wish to contain the rising Hitler ism in their so that at the same moment that we despise Reagan for consenting to visit an  military Ceme Tery of men dead 40 we decline to help men still whose Days Are probably in Afghanistan and in Charles Krauthammer in time Magazine in James Kilpatrick protesting the visit to Pitburg cant we understand that hitlers was a criminal state we can understand but hitlers state is and another criminal state is very much and against it there is no animus being fed by establishment Arian american they Are too Busy protesting the policies of South these Are but South Africa would need to import East Ger mans to show them How to build a Wall around its frontiers to keep Black immigration Down to control Lable one month an american officer doing routine things was shot dead by a soviet Soldier in East we got the opposite of an the soviets have said it might Well happen it was right that it did and that no reparations would be a year and a half ago the same government shot Down an unarmed passenger killing 269 peo ple in cold blood followed Only by wild charges that the korean Airliner was a spy that government continues to Rule Over Eastern and to press its aggressions against countries As far from one end of Moscow As As far from the other end of Moscow As the same american congressmen and senators who gasp for air in protest against the morally As phys native agreement by Reagan to make a gesture As far removed from overtones of forgiveness for those responsible for the holocaust As a visit to a civil War cemetery in the South is removed from an endorsement of blithely ignore the pleas and what one might Call nicaraguan asking for help in their own struggle to prevent the Rise of Hitler ism in their own some dare Call this moral c 1985 Universal press Syndicate a we Are poorer by Ervins Richer by his life Sam Ervin died at those of us who loved him Are left poorer by his death but Richer by his he was the last of the founding Over the past 50 the South has sent some remarkable figures to the sen some were colourful Huey Long of Lee Odaniel of some were quiet men who wore their Power lightly Byrd of Russell of we had a Fine storyteller in bar Kley of Kentucky and a great constitutionalism in Black of senator Sam shared these characters but he remained in a class by him he came up from the Small town of in the summer of a senator by appointment after the death of Clyde Twenty years at the Peak of his career in the with ail the allurements of Washington open to he packed his bags and went he to live out his Days As a country the nation remembers him chiefly As the folks chairman of the sen ates six Man select committee on the presidential Campaign this was the watergate it was a tribute to the respect and affection in which Ervin was held that he was the senates unanimous Choice to head the his the whole truth the watergate re Mains the Best work on that bitter Chap Ter in american no obituary tribute to senator Sam could Tell More of the Man than he him self revealed in his final statement on these Are excerpts unlike the men who were responsible for Teapot the presidential aides who perpetrated watergate were not seduced by the love of which is sometimes thought to be the Root of All on the they were instigated by a lust for political Power which is at least As corruptive As political Power they believed the presidents reelection to be a most worthy and succumbed to an age old they resorted to evil Means to promote what they conceived to be a Good their lust for political Power blinded them to ethical considerations and Legal to Aristotle aphorism that the Good of Man must be the end of poli tics they had if they Ever that the Constitution is de signed to be a Law for rulers and people alike at All times and under All Circum stances and that no doctrine involving More pernicious consequences to the Commonwealth has Ever been invented by the wit of Man than the notion that any of its provisions can be suspended by the president for any reason what Soever i reject this doctrine of the constitutional omnipotence of the As Long As i have a mind to a Tongue to speak and a heart to love my i shall deny that the Constitution confers any autocratic Power on the or authorizes him to convert George Washington America into Gaius Caesars its hard to imagine any present Mem Ber of the Senate quoting the Aris Cicero and Kipling in the course of a valedictory but senator Sam quoted them Early on he had memorized the whole of the declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United he was a fervent strict and by his own lights a staunch defender of civil rights he believed in the same civil rights for eve Rybo i last heard from senator Sam last when he was finishing his later he sent me a copy of the and i thumbed through it reflecting on the fullness of his Ervin served with distinction in world War i purple Silver distinguished service he served off and on in the North Carolina general he was a trial judge and for six years a member of the North Carolina supreme he became a National figure As a yet he never lost sight of his Small town Sam had two great loves in his he loved the Law and he loved his childhood Margaret Bruce Belli whom he married in he stayed wedded to both of them to the c 1985 Universal press Syndicate