Reply #25: Not In The Least, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

It was a decisive element of the political situation after the Second World War. Your characterization of governments in Europe at the time is simply false: not even Stalin, on the evidence of the Pact of '39, could be properly characterized as a real collaborator by the post-war period, and nowhere in Europe were active collaborators seriously involved in government, though doubtless some survived in local office and in police agencies. The idea anyone in power among the Allied governments could have somehow stopped the Hitlerite exterminations during the war as they were being carried out is simply nonesense, though it does seem a popular idea among the sort of people who seem to have some constitutional difficulty in holding people who actually do something responsible for their actions. When the Arab Nationalists of Palestine and elsewhere pressed their arguments against the Partition, everyone who heard them knew they were listening to people who had enthusiastically collaborated with the Reich, and discounted the words accordingly, so that arguements which might have been considered weighty if pressed by men with clean hands went disregarded.