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Finishing his studies at the University of Melbourne. Pisar was awarded a fellowship to Harvard Law School, and recalls with joy the years he spent completing first an M.A. and then a Ph.D. on the legal aspects of East-west trade. "At Harvard, my mind was set on fire," he writes. "I spent my night in the second basement in the dust that Dr. Newton had ordered me to avoid. I undertook detailed and captivating research, deciphering unpublished manuscripts in several languages...
...Years at Harvard were only the beginning of Pisar's "reincarnated" existence. Graduating from the law school, he went to work first as a counsel to UNESCO, later as a member of President Kennedy's task force on foreign economic policy. His first book. Coexistence and Commerce, published in 1970, caught the winds of detente and helped influence government policies and public attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic. He has since been called upon as an adviser to both the State Department and the Senate Committee on Foreign Commerce...
...last 20 years, Pisar says, he has lived by the ancient proverb that. "The ink of the scholar teaches more than the blood of a martyr." Today, however, Pisar is no longer so sure. Pointing to the nuclear arms race and the Middle East conflict, the plight of the Third World's hungry millions, and rising inflation and unemployment world wide, Pisar sees shadows of the past, warnings of future terrors that could come...
...know Hitler was not just an aberration, but an almost logical outcome of a society that had fallen apart." Pisar observes. "My purpose was not so much to write an autobiography, but to establish a link between what I have lived and the new dangers--not only to tell myself what has happened but to transmit it to others who learn from history very, very badly...
Although the new threats, Pisar stresses. Will not be of the same form as the Holocaust, they could be equally extreme. "I have lived through a pilot project for the destruction of humanity." Pisar says, "a death rattle of the species on the eve if the nuclear age. To me the nuclear arms race is a kind of specter of a planetary gas chamber...