Dragan Pavlovic, MD
Dear Fellow-Combatants for Truth and Justice,
Back from France in late December I have been engaged in a protracted conversation with the Muse Clio. I got down on my knees and pleaded with Her to offer me some hopeful guide for what seems to be a bleak future for the human race. Clio is torturing me with a kindness devoid of anything concrete. Until I can seduce Clio into some kind of a promisory note for at least a tolrable future, devoid of humiliations and bombs dripping with false humanitarianism, my pen will take a rest. In the meantime,I have come across an essay by Dragan Pavlovic, MD (editor-in-chiuef of Dialogue, temporarily suspended journal)which should be required reading for nearly everyone in and out of power. It is entitled "Some Thoughts on the Reign of Terror (and how to stop it)." >From it, I have extracted three cited quotes which merit to be broadcast as widely as possible and especially because of the persona cited. The first one reads as follows: "When handling foreign people in the East we will have to take care as much as possible to recognize different kinds of people and to promote them....We not only have great interest not to unite these peoplefrom the East, but on the contrary, to split them in as much as possible into more small pieces." The second instance is a summary of a letter which explicitly suggests that "aggressive policies would not succeed unless these are enveloped in the noble principle of (the) promotion of minority rights." Here comes the clincher: "Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war, neither in Russia, not in England....nor in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a SIMPLE MATTER TO DRAG THE PEOPLE ALONG (caps added for emphasis), whether it is a Democracy, a Fascist dictatorship, or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. THAT IS EASY(caos added). All you have to do is tell them that THEY(caps added) are being attacked and DENOUNCE THE PEACEMAKERS FOR LACK OF PATRIOTISM AND EXPOSING THE COUNTRY TO DANGER (caps added). It works the same in every country." The respective aithors are Heinrich Himler, Prinz Max von Baden andHerman Goering.
Raymond Knezevich Kent
