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...generally accepted but unwritten rule in scholarly circles that "scientific" films and other visual materials covering such topics as experiments conducted on human subjects in Nazi Germany, are not worthy of scientific attention and go too far beyond the realm of human decency to be presented in serious academic settings. Also, classroom presentation of explicit photographic materials on violence aginst women (and children) and other such pathological activities is considered an act of gross impropriety and is verboten in academic and other institutions of reasonable moral standards...
...argument that these anthropologists have the right (or academic freedom) to show such films, I say that one would be well within his right to show films on mutilation of Nazi or South African prison inmates to a class of medical students, but such an act is considered so monstrous that it would cause outrage. Because a practice is "widespread" (as is sadistic assault in this country) does not justify a filmic academic presentation to a college classroom...
...Soviet move into Afghanistan [Feb. 11] is reminiscent of Hitler's annexation of Austria, then the present U.S. policy of forging a closer alliance with Communist China has its parallel in the panicked alliance of the Western powers with the Soviet Union to crush Nazi Germany. The current might of the Soviet Union owes much to this alliance during the second World War when the Soviets obtained valuable weapons and technology from the West. Even more deplorable was the consequent vassalization of Eastern Europe by the U.S.S.R., unchecked by the Western Allies...
Winston Churchill is duly eulogized as Britain's savior; but Beaton also observes "his feminine hands with the pointed nails and ringers" and the cracks in his patent-leather shoes. He also records the great man's uncensored political comments. Speaking about the Nazi war criminals, then on trial in Nuremberg, Churchill was typically direct. "Bump 'em off," he growled, "but don't prolong the agony." Evelyn Waugh, an old enemy from school days, receives the worst treatment, and for a telling reason. "In our own way we were both snobs," Beaton admits, "and no snob...
DIED. George Harsh, 72, convicted murderer who was pardoned in 1940 after saving the life of a fellow inmate (by performing an emergency appendectomy) and who helped 80 fellow P.O.W.s to tunnel out of a Nazi prison camp in 1944, an incident that was the basis for the film The Great Escape; after a long illness; in Toronto. In his later years, Harsh became a spokesman against the death penalty, a fate he had only narrowly evaded himself because, he wrote, "I came from a white, wealthy and influential family...