Archive/File: orgs/american/ihr ihr.hatch From: ak654@yfn.ysu.edu (Richard Hatch) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The Institute for Historical Review Date: 28 Apr 1993 03:24:21 GMT Organization: Youngstown State/Youngstown Free-Net Message-ID: <1rktd5$sgg@news.ysu.edu> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) solicited further documented information related to the Institute for Historical Review for a FAQ he is working on. Here are a few items which may be of interest: I. Willis Carto Mcvay has already posted numerous quotations and other information relating to Willis Carto. One item I have not seen in his material is the following fact: Carto had previously run an outfit called Liberty and Property, and published a monthly newsletter called _Right_, from 1955 to 1960. Through _Right_ Carto attempted to link the segregationist Citizen's Councils with the grassroots anti-communist groups of the McCarthy era, and with some of the unsuccessful racist splinter parties of the time. As it grew, the Liberty Lobby would later downplay its Klan and neo-Nazi movement connections. But the pages of _Right_ are a goldmine of evidence on the Lobby's racist origins and agenda. Carto recommended that his readers join up with George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, whose leader J. B. Stoner was convicted for the 1958 Klan bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church in Alabama. [The Right's Grass Roots, by Sara Diamond, in _Z_ magazine, March 1992, page. 19] II. Mark Weber/IHR On December 20, 1991, KPFA programmer Dennis Bernstein hosted Liberty Lobby lawyer Mark Lane. Bernstein, who has publicly defended Liberty Lobby affiliate Fletcher Prouty, failed to probe Lane regarding his connection to the Lobby. An article in the _Express_, a weekly paper published in the San Francisco Bay Area, reported on Bernstein's accommodating treatment of Lane. (Later, KPFA programmer Philip Maldari interviewed Lane and asked him more probing questions about the Lobby. In response, Lane went ballistic on the air.) Mark Weber, of the Institute for Historical Review responded to the article, and in turn the article's author Paul Rauber rebutted. Here are some extracts from Rauber's reporting: The question [of whether the IHR denies the Holocaust] appears to turn on IHR's Humpty-Dumpty word game with the word Holocaust. According to Mark Weber, associate editor of the IHR's _Journal of Historical Review_, "If by the `Holocaust' you mean the political persecution of Jews, some scattered killings, if you mean a cruel thing that happened, no one denies that. But if one says that the `Holocaust' means the systematic extermination of six to eight millions Jews in concentration camps, that's what we think there's not evidence for." That is, IHR doesn't deny that the Holocaust happened; they just deny that the word "Holocaust" means what people customarily use it for. [Sticks and Stones column, by Paul Rauber, _The Express_, January 10, 1992] Weber's claim for the "independence" of the IHR is marked by the same disingenuousness that characterizes that institutes scholarship. In 1980 the business license for "The Noontide Press/Institute for Historical Review" was filed by Elisabeth Carto, wife of Liberty Lobby founder and treasurer Willis Carto. Carto himself is listed on IHR's letterhead as "founder." IHR's activities are regularly promoted in the Spotlight, as are the racist and anti-Semitic books by Noontide Press, which are advertised as part of the Lobby's "Liberty Library." [Response to letter by Mark Weber, Paul Rauber, _The Express_, January 17, 1992, page 4.]
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