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BALTIMORE -- The previously secret diary of writer and social critic H.L. Mencken reveals virulent antisemitism, racism and pro-Nazi leanings, shocking even the sympathetic Mencken scholar who edited it. The diary, typewritten on 2,100 pages between 1930 and 1948, was sealed on Mencken's instructions for 25 years after his death in 1956. When a ruling by the Maryland attorney general opened the door to publication four years ago, it was said the diaries would reveal "the worst of Mencken" and his "dark side." The newly published pages do exactly that, the Evening Sun reported yesterday. The diaries show Mencken as an antisemite, a paternalistic racist, a mean-spirited critic of colleagues who considered him a friend, and a Germanophile who never denounced Hitler but ranted against American participation in World War II. On the subject of Jews, Mencken wrote in December 1943 that the Maryland Club had no objection to a Jew from out of town eating there occasionally. "There was a time when the club always had one Jewish member, but the last was Jacob Ulman. Ulman was married to a Christian woman ... and had little to do with the other Jews of Baltimore. When he died the board of governors decided that he should be the last of the Chosen on the club roll. There is no other Jew in Baltimore who seems suitable," Mencken wrote. Of blacks, he wrote in 1943, "... it is impossible to talk anything resembling discretion or judgment to a colored woman. They are all essentially child-like, and even hard experience does not teach them anything." On Oct. 24, 1945, he wrote, "... The course of the United States in World War II ... was dishonest, dishonorable and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, in supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace." Mencken scholar Charles A. Fecher of Baltimore, who edite