European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns Jim Fain the stars and stripes latest George Bush exudes presidential Aura Washington wow. Here comes yet another new George Bush this one decked out in presidential Robe self confident in command exuding above the Batlle Good humor. This freshly minion olympian statesman succeeds the read my lips Macho nun who burst Forth in new Orleans to draw and Quarter Willie Morton. In turn that Clint Eastwood parody sprang inexplicably from the loins of a preppy poppy who giggled about kick ing a Little ass and wanted foxhole pay for 10 minutes with Dan rather in tension there s been no quicker change artist since vaudeville than the chief we re about to Hail. His revolving door policy has put him on both sides at times with startling frequency of most issues. He s been for and against a woman s right to have an Abor Tion . Involvement in Vietnam Supply Side eco no Mitt ran soming hostages civil rights and Environ mental Protection. He adapted his views to the winds of Public opinion and the whims of whichever Power Ful figure he was sucking up to at the Lime. Still with due credit to his skill As Chameleon the latest metamorphosis is not so much his As that of the Washington press. There s bubbling within him an unmistakable feeling of Oats since the election. Thai s not the most desirable Quality in a president elect but is the Normal reaction of a Man who finally becomes big enchilada after a Quarter Century grub Bing along behind various mentors. Otherwise he s pretty much the same old poppy tangled syntax and All Cager to please thin skinned old Mai dish about press leaks and appoint ment timing fretting nervously that someone May think he s not in charge. The sudden casting of him As wire rimmed Jove stems mainly from journalism s Usta Keable thirst for the new and different. A Majestic Bush is far belter copy than a clone of the alternately snarling and Kinder gentler Bush incarnated for the Campaign by Lee Atwater and Roger aites. A new president always starts with a fawning press not so much because reporters crave favor As because they need a change of Pace from candidate skewering. There arc individual exceptions. Time s h ugh Sircy is a durable Courtesan for whoever occupies the while House. In a Brief lunch with Reagan columnist Charles Krauthammer an sex Mondale speechwriter had such a vivid religious experience he became More Catholic than the Pope. For a tuna Sandwich he grand by titled Bill Casey s old boy Cia Covert romantics the Reagan . Rosenthal the Market also is a Factor in press during these honeymoons we the people crave to think highly of presidents and lately they Haven t Given us much to work with. After Nixon Ford and Carter our Relief was palpable when Central casting sent Over an actor who could look and sound like a president. That s mainly Why we so eagerly forgave him the most Slothful corrupt tenure since Warren Harding s. Presidents generally Are not so fortunate and of Bush suffers Many of the attributes of the born loser. He will have to Start dealing with the real world sooner than most thanks to the debt Binge that financed his predecessor s protracted fantasy. There is no More tickle band of Success worshipping ingrate than the Pompon will dvrs who now depict Bush on the nightly news As latter Day Lincoln. It will not be pretty to see what they do to him when he gets to Bull run. Cox Hurt Bevka no better City than Vienna to talk of brotherhood Vienna Austria on a March Day in 1938, Cardinal Thodor innit or drove up to the Imperial hotel in Vienna. Adolf Hitler was staying there. He was reveling in his first Day of Power As hero and master of Austria he had taken the country without a shot. He had been greeted by millions of adoring austrian the Cardinal got out of his car turned and faced the crowd he stretched out his right in the nazi Salute. Fifty years later another Prince of the roman Catholic Church in Vienna car Dinal Franz Konig talked monday about the special secret of the Church christians Are the spiritual sons of the tribe of . In an elegant room full of jewish and Christian clergymen and academics from Europe and the United states he said that christianity was rooted in the patriarchs Moses and the prophets. He said that therefore anti semitism had to be rejected by christians not Only for humanitarian reasons but for religious motivations. Vhf a a few blocks away a new Monument has just been unveiled As pan of Austri a s doleful marking of the Day a half Cen Tury ago when she became an eager part of Hiuer s Germany. One of the Monu mint s statues is Low to the ground an old jew on hands and Knees scrubbing the sidewalk with toothbrushes. That is what viennese nazis did to jews in the Days after Hitler s entry a Small part that particular piece of horror still flashes sickeningly into the minds of peo ple All Over the world when they hear the word to put the Laluc in the Central capital Albertina Platz was a Mark of Honor for Vienna but on sunday a crowd was around it All Day debating whether it should be there or anywhere. Was t it better to for gel after All these years what will you do if i urinate on it one Man said to a stranger who thought the statue belonged right there in the Middle of Vienna i will punch you in the Mouth was the answer. All this is part of Vienna so years after Hitler and Austria embraced each other so eagerly. The memory of Innizer is part of Vienna and so is the Man who wanted to urinate in fury against the old jew in Metal. So is the president who hid his past As a nazi intelligence officer. But the Man who was willing to Back up his sympathy for the jews with a punch in he Mouth is also part of Vienna. So Are some of the Young people will ing to face the truth that Many of their elders still flee in resentment or guilt. And so is Konig. The very decision to hold an International seminar Here on relations Between jews and christians was a delicate one. Some american and european jews stayed away to Boycott the country that elected Kurt Waldheim. But most of those invited came. It was organized by the Institute for the study of Mankind a Small Independent group of Eastern and Central european philosophers encouraged by Pope John Paul it. The austrian government contributed funds for the meeting and so did lord Weidenfeld born in Vienna and now a publisher in London and new York. The meeting was held in the Homburg the historic governmental Palace. Every evening there is an official reception by the City by a Bank that u helping with funds by the German embassy or by the Small jewish Community. There was a lunch in the one Syna Gogue in Vienna that the austrian nazis did not bum Down on Kristal nacht be cause aryan houses might have burned Down with it. The talk in the Homburg was Learned and Rich about 70 people attended. There was Hope voiced for the future but of sentimentality. The City is still full of whipped Cream and you have to hide to escape the orchestras playing the Blue Danube or a tourist humming Wien. or lots Orion in Bui it is difficult to gel sentimental Over Vienna Lovely As it is. There Are top Many memories of the fact that Austri an produced nazis As villainous As those from the fatherland so listening to the Good talk from Good people in the meeting room at the Hof Burg becomes at least As much an emotional experience As an intellectual one. Is it right to talk of brotherhood in the City where people were humiliated and robbed and murdered by their neigh Bors but then the. Thought Cornea what better place to speak of Amity and com Mon roots Between jews and christians than the City where the crime of being a jew brought horrors so unspeakable that death could come As Succour by the time the session adjourns there seems Only one reality there is no running from Vienna for the viennese or for the rest Fusso you might As Well stay awhile in the company of two Good men the old jew on the sidewalk and the Cardinal in the to the opinions expressed in the columns and cd too an this Page represent those of the Tut Hon and Are in now a to be considered is representing the Clews of the Stan and stripes or the untied
