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...Derwinski, a former Illinois congressman and a staunch anti-communist, led the Coalition of American Nationalities for the bush campaign. Several members of this group resigned after their anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi backgrounds were publicly revealed...
This was not the first time Derwinski has associated with men whose public careers were later undermined by revelations of their anti-Semitic backgrounds. In 1972 Derwinski headed the executive board of the Heritage Groups for Re-election of the President...
Several of Derwinski's subordinates in the Heritage Groups also had questionable backgrounds. One has been implicated in the murder of 7000 Jews in 1941. And the U.S. government has accused three other Latvian-American members of wartime atrocities against Jews...
JUDGING from his service as an infantryman in the Pacific theater during World War II, Derwinski himself is probably not a Nazi sympathizer. There is no reason to believe Derwinski is anti-Semetic or pro-fascist...
...fact that Derwinski led groups with such people in them should give us pause. Derwinski owes the American people, specifically the Senate, an explanation before he officially becomes Secretary...