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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080526/EDITORIAL /623555626/1013 <http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080526/EDITORIA L/623555626/1013&template=nextpage> &template=nextpage The Washington Times 26 May 2008 Letters to the editor Whose fervor, whose nationalism? Your fear that Serbia will continue to be fervently nationalist and anti-Western is misconceived ("Serbia's mighty challenge," Editorial, May 16). Take the memoirs of Warren Zimmermann, a former American ambassador in Belgrade, in particular his interaction with the Croatian leader Franjo Tudjman. Mr. Zimmermann's recollection of the period immediately before the outbreak of war in Croatia was that "Tudjman's saving grace, which distinguishes him from [former Yugoslav President and Serbian leader Slobodan] Milosevic, is that he really wants to be a Western statesman." In the next breath, Mr. Zimmermann acknowledges: "For better or worse, Croatian nationalism is defined by Mr. Tudjman: intolerant, anti-Serb and authoritarian. "These attributes, together with an aura of wartime fascism, which Mr. Tudjman has done nothing to dispel, help explain why many Serbs in Croatia reject Croatian rule." So, a fervently nationalist and fascistically led Croatia was given the benefit of the doubt. The result was the murderous expulsion of the Krajina Serbian nation from its 400-year-old, "U.N.-protected" homeland. The "final solution" that had eluded the bloodied hands of Ante Pavelic, the Nazi-backed Ustasha leader, was achieved by Mr. Tudjman, with American help. YUGO KOVACH Twickenham, Middlesex United Kingdom
