Letters to the Editor

Hard-nosed reporting

Nice sleuthing on the part of Public Interest Watch, a big-business front group that breathlessly proclaims it has “uncovered” our warehouse while refusing to disclose its industry funders (“Treasure trove,” Inside the Beltway, Friday).

What extraordinary detective skills it must have taken to notice the mailbox with the name “Greenpeace” on the front of the building. Thanks for the giggle.

BILL RICHARDSON

Operations manager

Greenpeace

Washington

Remembering WWII

In the article laying out the chronology of World War II on Friday (“Uncommon valor, common virtue”) you briefly stated: “1941 March: Bulgaria and Yugoslavia join the Axis.” By failing to add that this was followed by massive street protests in Belgrade, Serbia on March 27, resulting in the overthrow of the government and the subsequent rejection of the Tripartite Pact, you partly misled your readers.

The truth is that in reaction to the decisive refusal of the people in Serbia to join the Axis, Adolf Hitler decided to bomb Belgrade on Easter April 6, 1941, destroying parts of the city and killing several thousand people. Serbs and Montenegrins were among the staunchest anti-Nazi allies throughout World War II.

DRAGANA ALEKSIC

Press counselor

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