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Following on from my post earlier Combating Propaganda I received this by e-mail, I would suggest that there is no “European Mind Set” about these things, the Europeans suffered equally from the wars, probably more so, because the ground war was fought in their towns villages and over their countryside,it is the “EU Mind Set” that wishes to eradicate anything that could conceivably conflict with its own views history.

Also in the same e-mail Jane Birkby complains of the blatantly pro-EU slant of weekly encyclopaedia by DK Publishing, which the Daily Mail has been offering at a fixed price with the newspaper. “History has been sanitised and given the EU slant, with omissions etc. throughout the set and the EU is already written in as a state in its own right. The propaganda is blatant.” It would be extremely funny if it were not so serious, they just keep on telling us the EU is not a state is not going to be a state and does not intend to become a state, yet they keep on treating exactly in the same way as any other state.

Media Release 10 December 2004

EU withdraws ´History´ book that forgot two world wars

UK - MEP wins apology

The European Parliament today withdrew its history of Europe written for schoolchildren, following complaints by Ashley Mote MEP, who sits as an independent for SE England.

The ´history´ - intended to be volume one of a series - was published in October. The section on the UK omitted all reference to two world wars, which Mr Mote described as “an insult to the memory of millions of Britons who gave their lives to preserve freedom and democracy on the continent of Europe”.

The president of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell Fontelles, in a letter to Mr Mote, today admitted: “The brochure in question was clearly ill-judged. It has been withdrawn from circulation.”

He went on: “I regret any offence the brochure has given. Action has been taken to ensure that the circumstances which led to publication cannot recur.”

Ashley Mote commented: “At least justice and common sense have prevailed. But this incident has exposed the real tragedy today, which is a European mind-set that wants to pretend these dreadful events never happened.

“We cannot allow the ultimate sacrifice made by the fallen of both world wars to be whitewashed like this from the pages of history. Nor can we surrender what they achieved.”

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Ashley Mote’s website is at
www.ashleymote.co.uk