AYR ESCO pee gang eye ye HERE’S A shot from the battle front and the B.C. Press Council decision that “in part” upholds the com- plaints made by my Jewish friend Lionel Kenner con- cerning a column I wrote two years ago. The piece was headed The Story Keeps Changing. a reference to the numbers lost in the “holocaust.” In it, J gave a two-line mention to a report put out (I said) by the Internationa] Red Cross in the 1970s that estimated 300,000 or so as the number of deaths in the con- centration camps. I did not claim that that was the true figure, only that it was one of many. Hence the headline. The council conceded that I accepted the report in good faith, but stated that Kenner has provided information from the IRC that “unequivocally refutes the authen- ticity of those reports as being gen- uine Red Cross documents.” . Kenner provided no such proof at the hearing even though he had had two years in which to do so. Over my objections, however, the council granted him five weeks to come up with something AFTER the hearing. It would have been proper on the council's part, | think, to give ME another five weeks in which to ' provide a rebuttal. But it didn’t. The report in question came from the International Tracing Service (ITS) at Arolsen in West Germany. It exists, and is not a “fake,” as reported by the scumrag Vancouver Province. Nor did the Press Council use that expression. The issue is whether the ITS is officially part of the International Red Cross in Geneva. Well, at the second Zundel trial in 1988 witness Charles Biedermann stated that he was the International Red Cross director of the ITS and that the Red Cross “took over its administration in 1955.” . Grinking Grivers Lo. THE FOLLGWING people recent- ly appeared in Nort Shore courts in connection with drinking and dri- ving related offences: Wolfgang Pagenkopf, 40. of North Vancouver, was fined $1,000 and received 24 months’ probation after he pleaded guilty to impaired. Brady Ronald Lynn, 27, of North Vancouver, was fined , $500, received. 12 months’ probation and “had his driver's licence suspended for 12 months’ .after he pleaded guilty to impaired. Carmen Mary Dickson, 71, of That might mean the service is not, technically, part of the Red Cross. But that’s to split hairs. It has been claimed, too, that the Red Cross came under tremendous pressure from Jewish sources when the 200,000 figure was published and has done its best to play it down, . Subsequent reports (not in my possession when I wrote the col- umn) pointed out that the figure should not be taken to mean all deaths in the concentration camps. But — to repeat — [ never said it did. . The figure related to inquiries from relatives about deaths in the camps. So my question is: if there were 6,000,000 Jewish deaths, how come only 300,000 inquiries were made? The council criticized me for not using a full quote from Jewish academic Amo Mayer. Mayer wrote a book in which he said that sources om the gas cham- North Vancouver, was fined $300 é and a three month driver's licence suspension after she pleaded guilty” to having a greater than .08 blood alcohol. : Triat Lawyer) Get the settlement - a ea 984-6122 Singles Book! ee . you deserve. #598, Kapilano 109 Building. 760 Park Royal, West Van. 925-7 Ask about ot) 1325 Marine Dr. Norgare Mall bers “are et once rare and unreli- able.” He went on to say that while there was no denying “the mary contradictions and ambiguities in the existing sources, they were insufficient to put in doubt ... the use of gas chambers in the mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz. In that case, 1 was not writing an unticle on Mayer's book but a letter to the editor, and letters to the edi- tor have to be kept short. Furthermore, “rare and unreliable” was the bottom line of what he had ta say. The column itself used many sources — hence its “Story Keeps Changing” headline — and referred to Winston Churchill's having made no mention of any holocaust or gas chambers in his six-volume war memoirs. The second council criticism related to Holocaust expert Yehuda Bauer's report in the New York Times that “the larger figures (of those who died in Auschwitz) have been dismissed for years, exc that it hasn't reached the publics yet” os ae The council faulted me for; specifying that Bauer was ref only to Auschwitz. But that’s picking. with 4,000,000 deceased, Bauer knew that was nonsense and th Polish government has sin reduced the figure to somethi over 1,000,000. Jean Claude j Pressac, a prominent “pro-hoig’ caust” writer, now puts it ate 13% 759,000. : As I told the council, if you ra ically reduce the Auschwitz fip as Bauer did, the 6,000,000 Ss also falls by the wayside ever allowances are made for not the alleged victims having » Jews. A pointer to these cri heing small stuff is that the coin refused to order the News : lish corrections or apologies? Notas nwuch of a return from a 40,0004 word (1) complaint. ~ OW Onward and upward, co: — See Mr. Kenner pag Helen & Don Preston didn't compromise You sf when it came to their new home ; a 7 ah . oy O17 agile my gs St . , 5 on y ou shouldn't either. 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