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Hitler also counted on Stalin's naivete. In a sense he was right. According to all witnesses, Stalin had total confidence in Hitler. To humor Hitler's extreme anti-Semitic sensibilities, the Soviet hierarchy withdrew certain Jews, such as Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, from the international scene. Stalin's order to honor the commercial agreements between the two countries was scrupulously executed, at all levels, until the beginning of hostilities: the day of German aggression, one still saw Soviet trains stuffed with raw materials heading toward German factories...
...Pavel Litvinov, a thoughtful former dissident who emigrated to the U.S., is optimistic about the Carter stand on human rights because it is balanced by vigorous U.S. proposals on strategic arms control. "The Soviet government will try to show that Washington's attitude is counterproductive and respond harshly, but they will learn to live with it. They want a SALT agreement too. The new American emphasis on human rights may not lead to internal liberalization but it is definitely a containing factor in the long run." In the meantime, Litvinov, who was imprisoned and exiled for his part...
...foreign minister of Sierra Leone, he was imprisoned in that country during the fall and winter of 1970. The government of Sierra Leone claimed at the time that a state of emergency warranted Karefa-Smart's imprisonment, but he was in tact detained for political reasons. Echoing Bitar and Litvinov, he cites Amnesty's apolitical nature as one of the keys to its success. "Amnesty is definitely helping the many political prisoners who are still in Sierra Leone," he says...
...still reject even some of those cases that come to its attention, due to sheer volume. "We're successful with those cases we take, but we can't take everybody," she explains. And when a prisoner is freed, it is often impossible to attribute his release directly to Amnesty Litvinov, Bitar, and Karefa-Smart all mention that a combination of forces brought about their liberation, but Amnesty can serve as an effective channel for these forces...
Despite Amnesty's limitations, there is no denying the gains it has scored for political prisoners throughout the world. No other organization addresses itself directly to the plight of those who, in Pavel Litvinov's words, "know the feeling of being abandoned...