BIAS AND DISTORTION

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Mr. Schoenberg's editorial "The Nazi Rebirth," which appeared in your November 25 issue, shows some distortion that even one's belief in independent and opinionated editorials cannot make overlook. It is one thing to have a biased tone, but quite another to provide incorrect "facts."

Radio Munich's fantastic contention that eighty-five percent of the German Foreign Service are ex-Nazis should remind some of us, in the light of the facts since then revealed by an impartial parliamentary investigation, of similar statements made questioning the political reliability of Foreign Service elsewhere. Thus, when Mr. Schoenberg cites a radio-commentator to support his most serious charges, why not quote some of the facts published by the investigation Committee of the Bundestag, why not mention that a good many Foreign Service employees, who had been found to be Nazis, have since been dismissed?

Let us not forget that neither Ami Go Home signs nor a distrust for the United States are a particular monopoly of Western Germany, and let us remember that the return of nationalist elements onto the public scene is a consequence of American pressure for German rearmament. Perhaps there is a better way of combating the "Nazi Rebirth" than the one of ignorance and misrepresentation. Why not use a weapon that no totalitarian system can afford to use the truth? F. W. Sehulenburg G2