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LXXIII, No. 9 Page Four Friday, May 5, 1978 Dunant: Nobelist and Christian Zionist It will be an occasion for honors to one of the Jean Henri Dunant is a name written indeli- bly in human history. He was the founder of the Red Cross. It was at Solferino in 1859 that Dun- nations Hasidey of Umot HaOlam, the saintly among the the world. The that tribute to Dunant Dunant also will be the occasion to ant, during the tragic warfare that shocked his recall when addressed Jewish conscience, conceived the idea of forming an communities of France, England and Germany international body to relieve suffering. It was at in his call for the resettlement of Palestine by the Geneva Conference in 1863 that the Red Jews, his plea, like those of many other Cross idea took root. forerunners of Herzlian Zionism, fell on deaf Dunant also had another great dream: the rehabilitation of Palestine by Jews as their re- ears. Now there is an amending of the faults that constituted homeland. For that purpose he made so many obstacles for Zionist leadership formed the International Palestine Company in in Jewish ranks. 1867 and he gained an inerasable page in Magen David Adorn, the counterpart of the Jewish history as one of the great Christian Red Cross in Israel, takes the lead, through its Zionists of all time. American supporters, to pay honor to Jean For his great achievement in the founding of Henri Dunant on the 150th anniversary of his International Cross, Dunant became birth. It is an occasion for deep appreciation of the first recipient Red of the Nobel Peace Prize in the human spirit of a great Christian who rec- 1901. ognized the injustices committed against the Yet, the story of the Red Cross founder is little Jews and sought recompense for them by means known, and only in the archives of the Red Cross of a re-established Jewish homeland. His dream and the Red Cross histories which have limited was fulfilled in the form of the Israeli Zionist circulation is the name given proper recogni- triumph. Glory to the memory of that great tion. Christian dedications whose idealism was universal in his For his role as the pioneer Christian Zionist combined to the Red Cross and to he is due for honors at the Herzl Institute in what had developed as the Zionist ideal. New York on May 7. - Do Not Interrupt Holocaust Expose! Whatever the effectiveness of the Holocaust repetition of the crimes in any form will be met television programs, they must be judged only with the human reactions that were missing as an added encouragement to keep exposing during the Nazi era. Had there been the vital the Nazi crimes. Millions were moved by what humanity of man to man it might not have oc- may have been revelations to many. At best it curred. Even the libertarian American spirit was part of the story but not the complete one. was dormant, and the indifference was evident Because the facts were told dramatically, and time and time again when shiploads of refugees it was a great-melodrama, much was missed. were turned away from America's shores and The murder of children was not hidden and the the Nazi victims were returned to their doom. barbarities of the Nazi savages were shown in The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was one of the the process of limelighting the horrors. How many were left with the knowledge that of the great manifestations of courage in the resis- Six Million Jews who were murdered there were tance that was not always suppressed by the Hitler hordes. In the televised Holocaust pro- a million children? The bestiality of those who spoke for and grams it was clearly shown that the Zionists, acted for the Master Race was placed on the who were then a minority, were the ones who record. Now the story must continue to be told inspired the resistance. That's how it is now in as history, with all the aspects of its inhumanity the defensive efforts for Israel. That is how it told and retold for this generation and genera- must continue. Never again remains the de- tions to come, providing the assurance that the termined slogan for all libertarians. Genocide Convention: U.S. on Trial Included in the mounting comments on the effects of the Holocaust TV series on American public opinion was a declaration addressed to the New York_Times by U.S. Senator William Proxmire de&ring the failure of the United States-to act mile Genocide Convention which calla_ for international action to outlaw mass rimer of peoples. This nation, under President Harry S. Tru- man, was among the first to advocate adoption of this convention by the United Nations. But it needs confirmation by all nations of the world. Thus far, more than 83 countries, including the Soviet Union, have adopted the Genocide Con- vention. The U.S. still stands out in its failure to act. Now Senator Proxmire comes with a plea for the adoption of the important measure. Deeply moved by the Holocaust revelations, his plea is that one of the ways of pledging non-repetition of the Holocaust is by adoption of the regula- tions outlawing mass murders. Perhaps his adamant declaration will serve the purpose that has until now placed this country in an inexcus- able tole 'ark' the side of the bigots. Challenge of the Spirit Noted Dissident Boris Shragin Exposes- USSR Anti-Semitism Boris Shragin, Russian dissident, well-known as a writer and philosopher, accounting for the links between Russia's past and pre- sent, in "The Challenge of the Spirit" (Knopf), defines the continuing display of anti-Semitism in Russia, with allusions to the origin of the prejudice. This volume offers important analysis of the role of intellectuals in the development of the Russian people, and the anti-Semitism di- rected at the intelligentsia as a class. The book is an impressive historical review of social events as well as historical events- leading up to the Soviet policies of this day. The past had its influence on the present, and the anti-Semitic aspect emerges as a shocking continuity of earlier experiences. Thus, in the matter involving attitudes towards Jews, the Soviet prejudice is especially shocking. Here are some excerpts from Shra- gin's studies that throw light on the Soviet bias: "The Soviet authorities found an even more expressive and -popular label to denote the foreignness of intellectuals, by identifying them with the Jews. This is something even the dullest can understand. There is of course nothing new in this. Intellectuals and 'Yids' were synonymous to the beutish Tsarist 'Black Hundred' gangs. The fathers and educators of 'ordinary Soviet people' were themselves anti-Semites. "Since Stalin's campaign against 'cosmopolitanism' there has been a revival of anti-Jewish agitation whenever relations between the state and the intelligentsia have been unusually strained. But this conflict has never been as open as now, when full-fledged state serf- dom has been exposed to humanism and progress. The intelligentsia, in any event, has lost its illusions. Since Stalin, the state has prohi- bited and restricted much intellectual activity, applying the machin- ery of repression for all it's worth, to keep the intelligentsia, if not in a state of genuine submission, at least prepared to cynically buckle under and serve the oppressors. The authorities have resorted to anti-Semitism, in spite of the disgrace this implies in a post-Hitler world. To find disciples of Marx, Engels, and Lenin following in Hitler's footsteps would indeed be scarcely credible, had they not already shown how little they care for honesty or consistency." "In this way, our know nothing rulers have managed to consolidate their position and scramble back onto the 'commanding heights.' If - only they could govern with the sole assistance of ignoramuses like themselves! But unfortunately they need the intellectuals, pernicious as they are, with their Yid passports or Yid mentality. And so the Brezhnev leadership twists and turns, gyrating like a merry-go- round, alternating fits of anger, lies, hypocrisy, and plain thuggery." "Incidentally there may be a key here to the peculiar nature of Russian anti-Semitism, which is directed against the intelligentsia as a class. The intellectual is felt to be alien, and it is natural to label him a 'Yid,' the embodiment of all that is foreign. It is typical of the intelligentsia, moreover, that it strives to get out of its national shell and to develop cosmopolitan ideas; we see this in both Westernizers and Slavophiles, and in such thinkers, diametrically opposed in many respects, as Tolstoy and V. Solovyov. In Dostoyevsky s case, too, nationalism took the form of considering' the RuSsian a' 'universal man: