Re: memories.e18/reply
Tom Holloway (xuegx@csv.warwick.ac.uk)
Fri, 26 Jan 1996 01:14:12 +0000
MEMORIES OF 1940-something
This list for schools (some 300 of them around the world)
has been going since 1992 without much serious conflict.
I have to say, however, that Manny Karbelnig's recent
comment....
>After WWII we made two serious mistakes. Why test Atomic weapons in the
>American desert, why have the Russians test in Siberia, the French in
>the lovely Pacific Islands. There is ideal atomic testing ground in
>Berlin, Frankfort, Stuttgard, Munich, etc.
... is completely unacceptable. Manny - when I first
suggested that you might join the MEMORIES Panel of
Elders, I made it plain that the project was about the
difficulties faced by civilians of *ALL* nations in the
face of the horrors of World War Two. Your experience
in the 'displaced persons' camp after WW2 must have given
you direct knowledge of such things.
Statements such as...
>Think it over, my friend, and learn who is your enemy.
... are provocotive and divisive and quite outside the
spirit of this list. I am aware that you were intimately
involved with the combat between the Allies (USA, England,
many countries of the World) and the Axis (Germany, Japan,
Italy). I recognise the problems. But we will not heal
our world and make it ready for the 21st Century by such
inflammatory statements.
Please reconsider your position and write again in a more
positive spirit.
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