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...McCloy (who will justifies the role he played in imprisoning 110,000 Japanese-Americans and in refusing to bomb the rail lines to Auschwitz). Among those whom Harvard has neglected (at least thus far) have been Anatoly Shcharansky, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Fifty years ago Harvard honored actual Nazi leaders. Today we dishonor their victims by selecting an apologist for a Nazi war criminal to receive one of our highest honors. Confucious condemns "honors acquired by unrighteousness...
...expert on the history of the Holocaust this week challenged the selection of the president of West Germany as Commencement speaker saying the European statesman has systematically lied in defense of his father who was a chief diplomat for Nazi Germany...
...article published in two area newspapers, Francis L. Loewenheim--a professor at Rice University--charged that while this year's Commencement speaker, Richard von Weiszacker, is an eloquent voice of the need for modern Germany to bear responsibility for Nazi war crimes, he has distorted his father's own role in those atrocities...
...elder von Weiszacker was charged by the international tribunal with assisting in the deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps and served 18 months in prison...
...president of West Germany has been hailed by various Jewish groups--such as B'nai Brith's Anti-Defamation League and the World Jewish Congress--as a "unique" voice in modern Germany, because of his call to fellow Germans that they bear the responsibilities that derive from thecountry's Nazi past...