That's ok, the new governor of California stood by Waldheim even when it became public.
Paul wrote:
True, although it was probably only a secret from the public. As I recall, after war the Yugoslavs filed a formal complaint against him as a war criminal with the Allied war crimes tribunal (U.S., Soviet, UK, French). Since was he then was a career diplomat being posted to the key capitals rising to Foreign Minister of Austria and since neutral Vienna was the center of Cold War clandestine contact and monitoring for both sides, it is hard to believe that the key players had not worked up many a profile on him long before he was ran for UN Sec Gen.
To put things in context, I believe the charges never went beyond being "in the chain of command" for atrocities (I think against partisans and British commandos). Although it was never charged that he actually initiated an atrocity or personally supervised one, it is still a war crime to be participate in the chain of command of one - let us remind people often.
At 03:23 PM 12/21/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Waldheim was a secret demon. That does not count.
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