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Imperialist Ideology. American Jews were even angrier. At a mass rally in Manhattan, 40,000 people waved Zionist banners, sported buttons proclaiming I AM PROUD TO BE A ZIONIST and hoisted placards charging that the U.N. had succumbed to Nazism. Black Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin cited the Arabs' long involvement in the African slave trade. "Shame on them!" thundered Rustin. "[They] are the same people who enslaved my people...
...Ambassador Moynihan argued in last week's U.N. debate, "Whatever else Zionism may be, it clearly is not a form of racism." The word racism denotes an ideology, such as Nazism or apartheid, which favors discrimination on the grounds of alleged biological differences. Yet few people are as biologically heterogeneous as the Jews...
...values). They had the urgency that comes with vivid and widely shared causes. Military enemies first pushed them together and then, in order to "form a more perfeet Union," they had to summon moral energies for even more demanding tasks. Many decades later, slavery at home and then Nazism abroad occasioned similar summonings. Today, in contrast, frustrations arising from various foreign and domestic setbacks, the failure of some good intentions on New Frontiers and in Great Societies, contribute to skepticism about causes...
MORE than anything else, this was the year of the Anniversary in Eastern Europe. The celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the defeat of Nazism--always accompanied by fervent expressions of undying gratitude to the Soviet liberators--dominated city squares, billboards and television screens in every remote part of every Warsaw Pact country. On Czechoslovakia, the celebration had a distinctly hollow ring, the presence of Soviet troops in the country since 1968 kind of putting a damper on things. But in Poland and Romania as well, a lot of people I spoke with this summer seemed to find the "Eternal...
...judged to judge the judge." Even though Speer is the only ranking Nazi to emerge from the rubble of the Third Reich with his dignity somewhat intact, it is unlikely that he will ever free himself completely from the opprobrium of having been so dedicated a servant of Nazism. When it was discovered in 1971, for example, that he had taken a hiking trip to Norway, Oslo promptly declared rum persona non grata...