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    20 Years in the US Foreign Service I am a former diplomat in the US Foreign Service, speak and read Arabic (as well as several other languages), and have lived overseas in France, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. I have twice had lunch with Israel's ex-Prime Minister Shimon Peres (when he was still Foreign Minister), and…

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    Revelation and Activism Nice job with the [Nov.-Dec. 1995] Journal. In particular, Jürgen Graf's article really drove home what I've always suspected, helping me to fully understand the consequences of the outcome of World War II. I plan to become a European history teacher, to promote the truth and help reinvigorate an educational system that…

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    Impressive Scholarship Having just finished reading my first issue of the Journal, I want to tell you that I am very impressed. In its overall scholarship, it is the equal of any serious academic journal. Both "R.P." and "M.B." make good points in their letters in the Jan.-Feb. Journal. issues such as the threat to…

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    A Tip of the Hat Today, for the first time, I took a tour of your [internet] website, and was overwhelmed by the wealth of info there. If this is your spare-time project, please accept a tip of the hat from me. Please also be assured that what you've placed there at everyone's disposal is…

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    Great Impact I will be 87 on my next birthday. During my life I have seen so many promising organizations come and go. I hope this will not happen with the IHR. Mind you, in the time you have been with us, from 1978, the Institute has made an impact greater than many other organizations….

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    Profound Effect I'm enclosing a check for $50 to assist the Institute in carrying on its work. Since being introduced to the Institute and its library in the early 1980s, I must say that your work has had the most profound effect on my intellectual life, more than anything else. I no longer read any…

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    Passing on Info Congrats on your excellent use of available technology on the Internet to counter our traditional enemies. I've been spending the last half-hour saving your info to read and pass on later. Carry on the good work. H.L.South Africa Ray of Light I just want to thank and congratulate you for your excellent…

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    Hollywood and the Spanish Civil War For decades Hollywood and the rest of the American media have routinely portrayed the “loyalist” side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in an admiring and sympathetic way. Good examples of such propaganda distortion of history are two widely praised wartime motion pictures. In “Casablanca,” the 1942 Warner Brothers…

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    Emotions Recalled After finishing your book Innocent at Dachau [by Joseph Halow], which I found on the “new book shelf' of the downtown Beaumont Public Library, I wanted to write to you to show my appreciation for your effort. What you have done in this book is important. I, too, was in the armed forces…

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    Havel and “Ethnic Cleansing” In his Independence Hall speech (published in the Sept.-Oct. 1994 Journal), Vaclav Havel said that “the Creator gave man the right to liberty.” Does Mr. Havel live by those words? As President of the Czech Republic, he has deplored the forced expulsion of 3.5 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia, and the…

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