On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Donald B. White wrote:

> Precisely my concern--the issue of Henry Ford's prejudices could be
> endlessly debated and would remain unresolved.

Huh?  Henry Ford's prejudices are extremely well documented.  I don't
think there's any real dispute about that.  If you haven't read the stuff
he wrote about Jews, it's worse than you imagine: just out-and-out hatred.

You could argue about whether or not today's Ford Motor Company has gone
far enough to make up for its past.  FoMoCo may have profited by playing
both sides in the war, but it wasn't *built* by the war or the Nazis, as
say VW was.  And I suspect that Ford's many large donations to Jewish and
Israeli causes (since "Hank the Deuce" took over) dwarf its ill-gotten
gains of fifty years ago.

As I noted in the last message, here near the scene of the crime, plenty
of forgiveness is available.

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