[Chickensoup]

Editor: Chilton Williamson, Jr. Executive Editor: Aaron D. Wolf Foreign-Affairs Editor: Srdja Trifkovic EDITOR AT LARGE: Scott P. Richert WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Daniel McCarthy CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 
James Kalb, Tom Piatak, James O. Tate, Taki Theodoracopulos CORRESPONDING EDITORS
 Wayne Allensworth, Donald Livingston, Roger D. McGrath, William Mills, William Murchison, Claude Polin FILM EDITOR
 George McCartney LEGAL-AFFAIRS EDITOR 
Stephen B. Presser POETRY EDITOR
 Catharine Savage Brosman

[Pelham]

Chilton Williamson had been National Review’s book editor in the Reagan years. He was one of the first to leave National Review, and of course landed at Chronicles.

Chronicles was covering mass immigration, legal as well as illegal, and National Review was heading in the Open Borders direction that did so much to wreck it.

Srdja Trifkovic has roots in the Balkans, and he was writing about the simmering civil war in the wreckage of the old Yugoslavia when no one else was paying it any attention.

I recall him saying something along the lines of there being three ethnic groups there, Christianity and Islam that were further divided along various sect lines, and that everyone held grievances about things from 1,000 years ago.

Even if you were born there you could hardly figure out who would be fighting whom.