Dear John,
I have been to the site of the Witherspoon Institute, of which you claim to
be a fan. To me, it looks very much like a front organisation for the
fundamentalists of the Vatican, if you excuse me saying so as a baptised
Roman Catholic. And the Society of Jesus (Jesuits in plain English), of
which Fr. Ford was a member ("S.J."), is not known for its objective look at
historical facts, to say the least.
The doubtful role of a prominent Jesuit, Tacchi Venturi, between the
pro-Fascist popes Pius XI and Pius XII and Mussolini, is well summed up on
Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacchi_Venturi
No credit on 20th century history (let alone more remote times) can be
attached to what the openly or objectively pro-Fascist Jesuits said.
It is clear that in Italy, France and Spain, they fondly hoped for a victory
of the Axis forces - hence their vindictive stance against Churchill, an
ally of "Godless Communism" after June 1941.
The number of "Institutes" of that kind, run by religious fundamentalists of
all description, must be infinite on the Internet . . .
If you would like to have a look at a more dispassionate, academic
discussion, the scholarly H-Diplo network (based at Michigan State
University) published a dual review of Jörg Friedrich's book _The Fire_
(which largely expounded the theses taken up in the Witherspoon Institute
article which you mention) :
http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/books/PDF/TheFire-DualReview.pdf
As for the idea that women were "innocent", there are two answers:
-In Germany they got the right to vote after the Great War. Weimar Germany
no longer was a medieval country in which women were not consulted over
national affairs! How many voted for and against Hitler in the crucial
election of 1932 ?
-Have you ever seen newsreels of the period 1933-1941 ? Can these thousands
of ecstatic women hailing their Fuhrer at Nuremberg and elsewhere be all
hired actresses ?
Best wishes,
A.C.
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From: Jdanie1776
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 8:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ChurchillChat] bombings
On August 3rd, Prof. Christopher O. Tollefsen wrote a piece entitled, "The
Abiding Significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" in the Witherspoon
Institute's online publication, Public Discourse. In it, he says that WSC
"is today considered a great hero of the war, despite considerable evidence
that he was a major architect of the policy of terror bombing," in Europe.
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/08/1485
I'm a fan of the Witherspoon Institute, but in this instance I think some
uninformed conclusions were drawn. Through a friend at the Institute I have
attempted to direct the author to the Churchill Centre and the piece on the
bombing of Dresden.
Any thoughts?
John Danielsin
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