Ad - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Jonuary 5, 2000 TERRACE STANDARD ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 PUBLISHER: ROD LINK ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. * V8G 5R2 TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 * FAX: (250) 638-8432 EMAIL: standard@kermode.net The next one THE ONE person in B.C. looking forward to this new year, new century and new millennium has to be provincial Liberal leader Gordon Camp- bell. Barring any catastrophic occurrence, and given the calling of an election, Mr. Campbell will be the premier of the province by the time 2000 ends, Heck, he’s at the point he can book off and simply wait for events to unfold. Of course, that won’t — and can’t — happen. If Mr. Campbell wants to be the premier, he’ll be spending the first part of this new year polishing up on the list of promises he’s made to date. He’s going to have to explain more of his plans to simultaneously cut taxes and increase vita! ser- vices. He’ll have to give more details on plans to set provincial standards for health care which will then be turned over to strong regional authorities to manage. Most of all, Mr. Campbell i is going to have to fend off the numerous special interest groups now beating on his door with offers of assistance in return for having their pet causes make it on the agenda of his governing plans. Sure, these special interest groups have the cash and troops needed for an election victory. But if we've learned anything from this current govern- ment, making decisions based on who your friends are isn’t good public policy. What this province needs foremost is calm and rational political leadership. The average British Columbia deserves better than to be subject to an- other experiment in political ideology. ck Say it agains} THEY SAY that if you repeat anything long en- ough, it will become an established fact. Such is the case with the Great Bear Rain For- est. If you’ve never heard of it before, it’s not your fault because it doesn’t exist on the list of federal or provincial forests or parks in B.C. Rather, the Great Bear Rain Forest is an inven- tion of provincial, national and international envir- onmental groups. They’ve been calling the area along the B.C. coast up to Alaska the Great Bear Rain Forest for several years in a battle being fought beyond the province’s borders to ultimate- ly control who calls the shots in logging in B.C. And now the American print giant, Time ma- gazine, has weighed in on the fray. It’s declared the fight to stop logging along the coast as the number one environmental story of the year. This is being called a significant public relations coup on the part of environmental groups because it brings added substance to its Great Bear Rain Forest campaign. There. The phrase has been used four times in this missive. Now you’ve heard of it, too. Which means you're right up there with Time magazine. 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The Holocaust, on the other hand, was the end result of a meticulously planned, effici- ently organized and ruthlessly implemented state policy. It is this unprecedented killing machine efficiency with which a regime tried to wipe an entire race off the face of the earth that makes the Holocaust overshadow all other human tragedies of the 20th century. Historians will continue, try- ing eg" ‘exploit well-into the: fiext Céntury how and why’'the . Holocaust could have hap- pened in a culturally and $0- cially, albeit not politically advanced nation. We may never get a fully satisfactory answer, but new research gives us new insights. John Cornwell's new book, Hitler's Pope, The secret His- tory of Pius XII, offers just such new insights. Comwell set out to disprove the long-standing allegations that Eugenio Pacelli -- Pius BROUGHT FRANKINCENSE “MYRRH “FROM THE CAPITAL | HUBERT BEYER XII, knew about and tacitly condoned the slaughter of Eur- ope's Jews. To help the writer in his quest, the Vatican granted Cornwell access to hitherto secret archives. Cornwell came with excellent creden- tials and the Vatican had eyery reason tq trust him, One of his previous books, “A Thief in the Night, The Death-of Pope John Paul I, ar- gued convincingly against an- other allegation involving ‘the Vatican, namely that the aforementioned. pope was mur- dered by his aides. Towards the end of his re- search, in mid-1997, Cornwell found himself “in a state that I ean only describe as -moral shock." Rather than vindicating Pa- celli, the trail he had followed _ led him to a wider indictment. Pacelli, he found, had had a pronounced anti-Semitic streak from his early youth on. He also documents how Pa- celli's obsession with papal su- premacy prompted him, as papal Nuncio to Germany, to negotiate the infamous Con- cordat with Hitler's Germany in 1933. The Vatican got what it wanted: assurances of safety for the Catholic Church. Hitler got what he wanted: at the orders of the Vatican, the Catholic Centrum Partei, the Centrist Party, withdrew from the political stage, all Catholic associations such as youth groups and labour unions were ordered by the Vatican to dissolve. Bishops and priests were forbidden by the Vatican to engage in any political de- bate inside or outside their flock... tae de USE ada [nr ae eer ia | behalf, Aside from some gener- ic pleas for the oppressed, Pa- celli stood idly by as millions of Jews were gassed, Could Pacelli have turned the tide of mass murder? Per- haps yes, perhaps no. One can only speculate. But he was ina better position than anyone else to raise his voice for hu- manity. And he certainly had a moral obligation todo so.:, - This doesn't mean the blame’ for the Holocaust is to be laid at the feet of the Vatican in general and Pacelli in particu- lar, any more than one can blame every German individ- ual. 3 But unlike the average Ger- - man, Pacelli was a consur- mate diplomat. His diplomatic skills were legend in Europé.: He knew, he must have known, what Hitler, wag all about. The. of The Gentrist Party wasnibenoGongardat, which-he. wrote aga | tt third-strongest party, inc:the,.. Reichstag and it had conduc- ted and unrelenting campaign against the National Socialists. Many bishops had been out- spoken critics of Hitler. With one stroke of the pen, Pacelli killed the one opposition to Hitler that could have made a__ difference. Later as pope, Pacelli was well aware of Hitler's Final Solution, the total destruction of Europe's Jewry, but failed miserably to intervene on their ‘hegoliated, was, ;Rothing short of a pact with the devil. i" Cornwell deserves full marks for shining yet another light on the darkest chapter: of the 20th century, And it won't) -*: be the last one. an * Yes, I know the 20th cen-.: tury actually ends at midnight, : Dec. 31, 2000. Beyer can be reached ati e-mail - hubert@coolcom.com;: Tel; -- (250) 381-6900 . Web http www hubertbeyer.com Planting a seed for thought “THERE MAY be life before gardening but what other life is there once a garden posses- ses your soul?’ — Marjorie Harris. Until I met a possessed gar- dener, I figured gardening was a summer activity some people enjoyed more than others; nonetheless, come Oc- tober, all were happy to stash their trowels in a dry shed and retire to a cozy corner to catch up on Stephen King novels. — I soon learned that shaped- in-the-pod gardeners don't take the winter off. They just move indoors, where they barricade themselves behind teetering stacks of seed catalogues, Sunset how-to-grow books, and their garden diaries to plan for the coming spring. Their plans take the form of dreaming how their garden would look if they planted a boxwood here, a ro- sebush there, moved the holly- hocks over by that wall, etc. People devoted to hobbies THE MIDWINTER TRIP To THE BIG SMOKE! TT's NOT THE SHOPPING OR THE fooP OR THE Saws | THROUGH BIFOCALS CLAUDETTE SANDECKI are easier to choose gifts for, a blessing when it comes to those with birthdays after Christmas. They're used to their birthdays being celebra- ted as an afterthought, a trailer to the main event, Gardeners fare a little bet- ter. In December, bookstores bulge with weighty volumes made so by colour photographs ‘of gardens bursting with blos- soms, Choosing the ideal book FoR A BUSH FAMILY t+ O is the quandary. This year I was saved by a December 28 interview of Marjorie Harris on CBC, talk- ing about her latest ‘Seasons of my Garden’, published by Harper Collins. The book lacks the humour and intimacy of Lois Hole's ‘I Married a Farmer’, but it does offer new ideas on garden landscaping. Gardening is more than a pastime or a passion for Harris. . It’s one area of her life where she has control. She exercises her control by planting things here, moving them there, to produce the most vigorous growth and the most pleasing palette. ‘Winter, Harris finds, is the ideal time to check your gar- den for “balance”. To help identify “holes”, she recom- mends photographing your gar- den under snow, one shot from each window vantage, plus a shot from the roof for overall’ perspective. For her book, she I'S THE HOTEL Room |! hired a professional to photo- graph her garden once every two weeks for three years. This explains the $39.95 cost. Harris plants with bird habi- latin mind. By growing Vege- tation that provides birds with . seed, berries or shelter, her garden is alive all winter as birds flit about or flutter, to peck seeds from bushes that bend under their weight. : She recommends touring your garden after each heavy snowfall. to knock off the snow and prevent broken branches. She ‘plants with an eye to year round colour, red-barked trees or shrubs and blue grasses, many of which remain brilliant blue until spring. How many millennium ba- bies will grow up to become avid gardeners, no one knows. But one thing is sure. Years ~ from now, choosing a birthday gift for the’ Brian Minters among them ‘will be as easy -as: propagating dandelions, :