bashing.” I was also able to show him translated excerpts fromrna 1993 book by the Frenchman Jacques Merlino, the title ofrnwhich (in English) reads The Truth From Yugoslavia h Not BeingrnReported Honestly. Among other things, Merlino reportsrnthat an official of a public relations firm in Washington toldrnhim that their greatest success was in having, in effect, led thernmajor American Jewish organizations by the nose over to thernpro-Croatian side.rnA friend of mine had already given the professor a few copiesrnof Chronicles, with informative articles by Thomas Flemingrnand Momcilo Selic. Earlier, I had mailed him a few of my opedrnpieces that had appeared in papers in Philadelphia and inrnNashville, as well as a few articles written by university facultyrnfriends of mine. “Yes,” he said, “the truth is breaking throughrnin a limited way, but your major news sources are very muchrnlike a broken record.” I could not disagree.rnAt another time I was talking with a lawyer friend who livesrnin Belgrade. He told me of a friend who in 1992 had long talksrnwith a non-Serb American attorney who had held importantrnpositions in the United States government. The Serb told thernAmerican: “Look, we believed that only you Americans couldrnbe trusted to help, to be fair. What of Britain, we asked?rnWell, we knew that Britain was over the hill. France? Incapablernand not really trustworthy. Russia? Russia has too many problemsrnof her own. That only left you, but what did you do? Yournturned us over to the Germans, our bitter enemies in twornworld wars.”rnWhen I asked another Belgrade friend if Serbs had any contactrnwith the American Embassy, she spoke matter-of-factly:rn”They don’t really want to see us, and you know when a friendrnof mine came to Belgrade from Bosnia, she went to the AmericanrnEmbassy and told a young American officer there that shernwanted to report on atrocities. When he asked what atrocities,rnshe said they were atrocities against Serbs, and you know whatrnhe told her? They were only interested in those committed byrnSerbs!”rnWhen I began a conversation with a retired professor of sociology,rna woman, she cut me off before I could put forth arnquestion: “You Americans have lost Serbia’s trust and friendshiprnforever.” The bitterness in her voice left me with a feelingrnof sadness. It all seemed so unnecessary. Were we really sorninept in handling foreign relations, especially in dealing withrnpeople who in the past had been such faithful allies? At leastrnI had heard voices about the Yugoslav civil war that are almostrnnever heard in our media.rnGREAT TOPICS, GREAT ISSUESrnI’orbidden Fruits:rnThe NewrnI “uritanism-Julyrn1994-ThomasrnI leming in praisernof sex andrn iolence, SamuelrnFrancis onrnanarchotyranny,rnPhiliprnJenldns on thernVew Puritanism,rnand Sarah J. McCarthy onrnanti-harassment and speech crime laws.rnPlus, Chilton Williamson, Jr., on thernviolent West and Wayne AUensworth’srnreview of Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s ThernLast Drive to the South.rnTitlernAmerican Dilemmas-August 1994-MurrayrnN. Rothbard on life in the Old Right,rnEugene D. Genovese on black autonomy.rnJoseph Brown on “the other black history.”rnand Bill Kauffman on Senator J. WilliamrnFulbright. Plus, Thomas Fleming onrnequality vs. privilege and Samuel Francisrnon secessionist fantasies.rnBACK ISSUES ORDER FORMrnEach issue $6.00 (postage and handling included)rnDaternFORBIDDEN FRUITS: THE NEW PURITANISMrnAMERICAN DILEMMASrnAFTER LITERACY: EDUCATION IN POSTCFVILIZED AMERICArnAfter Literacy:rnEducation in PostciviiizedrnAmerica-rnSeptember 1994-rnJohn Lukacs onrncivilization vs.rnculture, MichaelrnGorman on ,rntechnovandalsrnand the futurernof libraries,rnTheodore Pappas onrnthe nagging problem of plagiarism,rnand Stephen A. Erickson on thernpolitics of education. Plus, Thomas Flemingrnon the education of hberals and JohnrnDombrowski on politically incorrectrnresearch.rnQty. CostrnJULY 1994rnAUGUST 1994rnSEPTEMBER 1994rnTotal EnclosedrnNamernAddressrnIrnMail with check to: Chronicles * 934 North Main Street * Rockford, IL 61103rnOCTOBER 1994/31rnrnrn