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Hence my 4 “trial.” 7 Anything goes, British his- ‘ torian David Irving, hated for d rater i his views on the holocaust, kas been barred from several coun: et tries and even accused of pro- Mae viding the detonator that set off the Oklahoma bombing, So it didn’t surprise me when a letter from Jack Chivo appeared in the News in which he said, in effect, that I had not seen Bergen-Belsen Progreceive Concervetive of Cosme Hs jcbonenhiebhil rh noord | ep oo AO Homeowners = Travel ‘ t Over Wvears Service On « PREE Consutrstien IC STABILIY.. » JOBS TODAY, concentradon camp in (945 and therefore could not know Whether there were any gas chanrbers there, (Which there weren't Hf there had been we would be seeing then every night on TV.) Chiva is a Jew fiom Romania and a Doug-hater second anty to his racial cans rade J ‘one! Kenner, who took me on what for him was an unprofitable trip to the BG, Press Council, Four years aga Chiva wrote a Ibellous, unpublished letter to Managing Editor Timothy Renshaw in which he claimed my book 2O.W, A Soldier's Story Of His ‘Ten Escapes From Nazi Prison Camps was mostly fiction. He delivered the same theme in softer tones after | had written a column about Donald “Rambo” Watt, an Australian who claimed in a recent book that he had been a stoker in the crematoria at Auschwitz, Watt’s story was about as ELECT Dennis Prouse Please come and Join me Sunday May 25 2:30 - 6:00 pm at an Open House ° refreshments 1885 Marine Dr. North Vancouver 990-1442 Authorized by Gordon Harris Official agent for Dennis Prouse A Defieux-Saxelby Insurance aServices Inc. - wo CALL TODAY 105-200 West Esplanade the Noth Shije © . North Vancouver (Located beneath Famous Players Theatre) of British Columbia, we don't see environmental protection and economic stability as mutually exclusive. And we're not alone, Fact is, the vast majority of British Columbians support north share news likely as what of George Dupre, the Canadian who claimed he had been dropped inte France dating the wat, captured by the Gestapo, and tortured, New York author Quentin Reynolds wrote a book about itand E proved the whole thing was a fake. (We're talk- ing about the 1950s here.) The holocaust being part of his religion, Chive came up with another letter alter the Rambo column, Once again he questioned 2.0,W, despite its having an eight-page index containing the names of dozens of people whose paths had crossed mine, J destroyed that atrack in colunins dated Oct, 6 and Oct. 9, Fast forward to March 29, when The Weekend Austratian did a whole page on Watt in which Jewish authorities con- firmed what I had divined ear- lier; Watt was a phoney, mara vN "Curent Divide BEDSPREADS Labour $10.50 per panel untinzd, $11.50 lined. w, low prices, RE i Estimates call 987-2966 (Ask about Seniors’ Discounts) Serving the Nerth Shore fer 28 yeors VIEWPOINT Twrote that up, too. [twas toc munch for poor Chive, Now he couldn't defend Watt but he asked in yet another letter, “What do Collins and Watt have in com- mon” ‘That they hacl both writers books after the war about which little could be proved, (Buc T didn’t wait 50 years to write mine.) His key poine was that I had not incntioned in 2O,W, that Thad seen Belsen after it had been liberated, So Teauld not have seen it. I didn’t mention it because 1 didn’t mention it. There were many things T didi't mention, Like the incident just before ] was captured, I still have the post-war, hand-writ- ten comment on it by my Company Commander, Major E.H. Lynn-Allen, “{ have dined out many a DRAPERIES & BLINDS BY | Ad vield "4%. ws BANK PREFERRED SHARES © Quarter Income © Preferred Tax Treatment Raima investment of $25,000. © Safety of Capital “| © Liquid Lacwentian Bank Class A Preferred Shares as of April 28/1997. Prices and rates subject to change and sadabte without notice. ‘For irvestors with total income over $20,000/y7, Aarest coparaiont sid is 8.52%, Based ou convent yi'd. MIDLAND WALWYN DIVE Chie THIme in Ge ‘ Chris Carter Financial Advisor " Phan Chip Thinking ic 2 tradersart of Nidisad Wiabuys Capital inc. FREE + INFORMATION KIT ,, At the Forest Alliance the direction forest 92575565 management has taken in recent years. And support is growing for a * balanced approach toward the issue. But we need your help. Join us. And have a voice . in the most important issue facing British Columbians today. Call 1-800-567-TREE (8733). eer epee nether ele nyt me Seg reer erg meng yr ee spel aft" wv vale “omens tine on your exploit with the Bosehe Mark 1V tank outside Cassel, Whenever one of my cronies says, ‘What a bloody awl weapon the 58 anti-tank rifle was," E bristle and the port has to go cound again while tell the story of someone who could and did use the damned thing, 1 recommended you for a Distinguished Conduct Medal...” More omissions: Heinrich Himmler committed suicide just down the road front us in May 1945, My buddy Sgt. Johnny Gibson was present when Nazi Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was caught ina Hamburg attic, “You're on next, Ribb!” said Johnny. Another member of our section, Sgt. Les James, met and eventually married Ilse Krueger, one of Hitlet’s KEN BAXTER LAWYER ve : 25 Years Exparlence Wednesday, May 21, 1997 ~ North Shore News - 7 se auhssedmpemmrahmmaeniennmmetionnee = chmmee oem taneerecarar nm neneanencmm ome Lae a eS eu noe Oe Oy Hatred is a bad adviser stenographers, who bad been with Hitler in the Berlin bunker T saw her often and she figured ty High ‘Trevor Roper's book, ‘he Last ‘Ten Days. Talso didn’t mention the tens of thousands of Jews who had not been “holoausted” and had been released from the camps; or that [ got to hold in my hand copies of “Operation Sea Lion,” the plan for the tnvasion af England, signed by Hitler, Why did 1 not mention those things? Because was writing an escape story, not a new History of the Peloponnesian Wars. Hatred is a bad adviser, Chivo, And you would get more sleep if you went back to Romania, : — The North Shore News, believes strongly in freedom of speech and the right of ail sides in a debate to be beard The columnists published in the News present differing points of view, but those views are not necessarily those of the newspa- per itself. LONSDALE QUAY NORTH VANCOUVER, 988-6321 “TREES TOMORROW ‘ sy ‘ ‘NATURAL: RESOUR FOREST ALLIANCE UT Of BRITISH COLUMBIA Common sense, Common ground,