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...And as such, they must be Poetry: Rosemary Deen affirmed, respected, vindicated, defended...
...supplies Israel, this assignment is one of the most important - WELCOMING THOUGHTS and, at the moment, one of the most delicate - an Israeli The recent release of Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, after officer can receive...
...Why is it that those who oppose economic sanctions against Pretoria are those Movies: Tom O'Brien Staff: Karen F. Silva, Harriette Balsky, who wield political power there, or those abroad who most benefit from the Janice Gates economics of apartheid...
...The intricate web must be of the war in Spain, perhaps forgetfulness is blessed...
...It is not to deny the moral vacuousness of Staff some of our leaders...
...What does it mean that the moral power of Christianity as the Reagan administration is set Loyalist slogan of the thirties, "No pasdran," has become the...
...Pacifists had become convinced that after be equally shocked by the Nationalist atrocities that followed...
...Heroism, generosity, solidarity were buried in the muck of political murder, private bloodlust, and public propaganda...
...ously promoted the distinguished Supreme Court Associate only a three-foot ankle chain linking one to a cell wall...
...No one should lessons...
...in the event, Franco kept hand theologian" and one of the journals in which he and his Spain largely out of the war, and by the time the conflict came, associates frequently wrote was suppressed by the Vatican...
...now they discovered that ordinary and Mauriac...
...They are sacred and inviolable...
...They are not the creation Editor: Peter Steinfels of mere custom...
...a simple cloth blindfold to screen out Senate hearings will be held next month...
...Sanctions are but one small step in a long and mighty, July and August...
...Horconclude...
...gle that lay behind it...
...At least we might try to keep the comMauriac in 1937: "The only raison d'etre for writers, and plexities in view for public consideration, even amidst the especially Catholic writers, in the midst of civil wars, is their celebration of a captive's long=awaited return...
...policy Ortega...
...15 August 1986: 419 Our responsibility will not stop with sanctions...
...Ideologies first killed their victims, then crumbled tion on Religious Liberty...
...Or would we only pick out deliver...
...six months after Franco church with the right-wing forces rather than with the victims finally entered Madrid, Hitler invaded Poland and World War on all sides...
...the trenches of World War I only "merchants of death" could On the feast of the Assumption, August 15, 1936, Franco approve a war which would mean the nearly instantaneous supporters massacred Republicans in the bull ring of Badajoz, ' leveling of Europe's cities...
...Or so one might The Catholic drama of conscience is less well known...
...They Production Editor: Anne Robertson legitimate all these...
...Bernard post-Munich remains of Czechoslovakia the same month that Doering, in Jacques Maritain and the French Catholic IntelFranco entered Madrid...
...against legitimating terrorism by engaging in negotiations...
...Nazi troops entered the In the end, the dissenting voices were vindicated...
...is fragile...
...For our part, we remember the challenge issued by expect answers soon...
...Because they know that only by raising the "cost of apartheid" will the is published biweekly, except monthly Pretoria government ever move to recognize the majority of its disenfranchised Christmas-New Year's and July and August, by citizens as equal bearers of the human nobility...
...the only merit of which they can boast is to see more clearly than others, to reason more exactly, and to outmaneuver in their own minds and hearts the machinations of ETC...
...Canada, $53...
...movement in the right direction...
...Have Father Jenco's captors tacitly responded to the present purposes - of revolutionary enthusiasm or revolutio- seriousness of the ecclesiastical diplomacy carried out by nary betrayal, of clerical or Communist manipulation, of Anglican envoy Terry,Waite and New York's Cardinal John foreign intervention or international solidarity, of heroic resis- O'Connor - or are they as unwilling to, acknowledge the tance or fratricidal brutality...
...Jenco said while still in Wiesbaden, "to have hugs and kisses, General Yaron and his superiors are hereby nominated to to love again, to rediscover I have dignity as a person...
...foreign, $33...
...Leon V. Sigal 440 What an odd course of reasoning, that those who have benefited from the The Past: David Lee Garrison 441 apartheid system, stalling its reform and reaping their wealth and power from the New Catholic Women: Valerie Hendy 443 servitude and degradation of millions, should wag an angry pale fist and say that others are `immoral and that the coming bloodbath will not be their responsibility...
...Yearly subscriptions, U.S., calling for workable, persuasive, limited sanctions...
...Spain played havoc pillaging of the war's early days, Francois Mauriac was able to with every doctrine...
...Hitler and Stalin were allies anyway: would a Republic under When Commonweal published and endorsed their views, it Stalinist sway have served the West any better...
...He nearly nineteen months of captivity in Lebanon, has given is one of two Israeli military leaders who were relieved of Americans more than a proper cause for thanksgiving, as command after the Phalangist massacres in the Sabra and welcome as that may be...
...That will only come from what, last February, the Economist changes to Commonweal, 15 Dutch St., New York, N.Y...
...drag on without apocalyptic resolution...
...It must address what Jenco calls "the tragedy THE RELEVANCE OF FASCISM of Lebanon," and the Lebanese peoples' "great desire for healing" and peace between Christians and Moslems...
...Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Even now, the experiences of this Shatila refugee camps...
...Human rights are not the product of state benevolence...
...It means exploring the disquieting religious, the means of nation-building on earth for a millennium...
...Much of the intellectual left's reaction was summed up in WOUND IN THE HEART Auden's gesture when he took a copy of his poem "Spain" off Albert Camus once compared the Spanish Civil War to an a friend's shelf some years later and simply wrote "This is a evil wound in the heart of a generation...
...lectuals (University of Notre Dame Press, 1983), argues that Still, it was definitely a dying conscience that twitched in this refusal of allegiance to Franco was a critical contribution Spain, one twisted and inflamed by political and religious to the current of thought culminating in the Vatican II Declarapassions...
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...It takes...
...If we were to give their names, they would fill this magazine...
...Roger Copeland 437 The last two months of emergency rule in South Africa have seen over 10,000 Verse: Dawn O'Leary 429 Sister Mary Lucina 436 people detained...
...Not all those who are eager to into Spanish graveyards alongside them...
...Its recommendations deserve immediate rate: U.S., $49...
...The Israeli announcement of of the-possible and the art of the impossible meet...
...And if we were to suggest economic sanctions as a means of bringing Pretoria to Books its senses - admitting it might take years, and that it would surely exact tremendous human suffering, not only in South Africa but among its neighbors - we would be Making Europe Unconquerable: told by some we are being immoral for causing such suffering...
...They pressive as any that had preceded it...
...Always...
...POSTMASTER: Send address change Pretoria...
...All Canadian and foreign subscriptions must be paid in approval for two reasons: First, to send a message to South Africa and the world that U.S...
...South African law forbids it...
...strategically - but the identification was made nonetheless, Catholics of my generation have had to live with this shame...
...Why is it that those who are suffering the most already (70 Advertising Manager: Ruth E. Taylor percent of black South Africans desire some form of sanctions), or are most likely to Publisher: Edward S. Skillin suffer in the future (the "front-line" black states that either border or are heavily dependent on South African trade), have been the strongest in calling for such Commonweal, (ISSN 0010-3330) A Review of Public Affairs, Religion, Literature, and the Arts, sanctions...
...it does not spell out toward Lebanon and its warring factions...
...Special two-year majority of the Commonwealth nations...
...instance, where revolutionary dreams, power politics, interna- Even as we write, contradictory statements appear in the press tional rivalry, and religious fervor all play parts faintly remi- about what messages were or were not given Father Jenco to niscent of those in civil-war Spain...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee has made a significant step in York, N.Y...
...That is not to deny Western complicity...
...bank...
...It suggests that incident of terrorism in Lebanon, looking at it as one symptom fascism - the racist autocracy of yesterday married to the 15 August 1986: 421...
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...What jails are full...
...powers of darkness know in this world...
...dollars by International Money Order or by the American people care...
...One need not be tortured, starved, or beaten...
...It will have just begun...
...responded, "The mass execution of the conmen and women still believed certain things were worth fight- quered, the extermination of the enemy - as was the law ing for, and even the most cruel and life-wasting struggle could before Christ - represents the most horrible triumph that the...
...A vast literature of celebrate this achievement are willing to appreciate the strugdisillusionment was the war's legacy to the political left...
...then they watched military necessity and behalf of their Christian faith, abused and defaced by those Communist tyranny exert a grip on the "revolution" as op- who would enlist the cross in the Nationalist campaign...
...The two events were not unrelated...
...If we were to list them here, the pages would cry out...
...or withholding all companionship day in, day out, for months on end...
...But national reflection must not be limited to the personal, how- GROUND FOR TRAGEDY ever powerful...
...Canada, $30...
...protested the bombing of cities, the slaughter of noncombatThe Western powers refused to intervene in Spain out of fear ants, the exploitation of religious fervor, the alignment of the of provoking a general European war...
...Nation-building today Of course, human tenacity, resourcefulness, the ability to transcend circumstances, to hope, and to forgive are also crucial parts of the story of Father Jenco and his family...
...It shows about to identify the cause of resistance to fascism with the defense ten Spanish archbishops, in 1937 or '38, standing on the steps of the Spanish Republic - a firm response to Hitler's reoccu- of a cathedral with their arms outstretched in the fascist salute, pation of the Rhineland might have been more to the point welcoming Franco's generals come to celebrate their victory...
...They do not wait to emerge only after a given level of economic or Assistant Editors: David Toolan, Karen Sue Smith, Patrick Jordan racial accomplishment has been attained...
...gave their approval to Franco's crusade...
...Having been shocked by the anti-religious of passion and the blurring of certainty...
...cultural, and political conundrums raised by this protracted Nor does this ugly truth only pertain to the past...
...The receive the First Annual Kurt Waldheim Selective Memory items on Jenco's list of thanks is a reminder that human dignity Award...
...Maritain became "a secondAxis control of the Mediterranean...
...To do otherwise would be to Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, condemn ourselves before our very nature...
...his appointment deftly omitted all mention of Yaron's "I am so grateful to God to be present with my family," Lebanese service from the list of his military assignments...
...Telephone: (212) 732-0800...
...lack of Justice Robert H. Jackson to the position of chief justice...
...A few voices were The reason may be less the passing of time than the waning raised in dissent...
...But unless we act now, not only our moral and In keeping with Commonweal's usual summer economic interests will be in peril, but our strategic concerns schedule, only one issue is published each month during as well...
...and a truth of over a year in Teheran, this requires our nation's "growing up transcendent ugliness is that racist dictatorship has been internationally...
...Catholics as "ideologues," dupes of the Communists, "red Geopoliticians argued that a Franco victory would give the Christians," enemies of Rome...
...Contents Volume CXIII, Number 14 cam, moaweal Correspondence 418 Editorials 419 Ground for tragedy: Kim McQuaid 421 Right attention: John Garvey 423 Central American, policy: the dangerous drift: J. Bryan Hehir 425 Values, victims, & visions: James Gaf tey 426 A TIME The quagmire of dependency: Jim Chapin 430 FOR SANCTIONS Dance: Don McDonagh 434 Screen: Tom O'Brien 435 THE LAST two years have seen over 2,100 deaths in South Africa...
...Could untangled, the mutual interests discerned, and.perhaps even those events of fifty years ago help us face the bloodshed and the irreconcilable goals frankly acknowledged...
...and once it had been made, the moral and political stakes in But, in a way, it spurred us on, aroused us to the struggle...
...Is anti-contra cry chanted by the Sandinista supporters who the generally sound principle of refusing to make concessions recently filled New York's Riverside Church to hear Daniel to terrorists becoming a substitute for any overall U.S...
...encountered the same sort of outrage here...
...Human rights precede all these...
...the sun and the human face...
...But they are a resumed...
...Given the bloodshed and the bitterness of the whole Middle East malaise...
...Yaron, however, is not just any officer...
...Spain, wrote Arthur Koestler, "caused the last twitch of A decade ago, Jean-Marie Domenach wrote about a photoEurope's dying conscience...
...10038, called "the best cool-calculating argument for sanctions": concerted economic and political coercion...
...And second, because moral persuasion alone will not check on a U.S...
...Who is the Islamic Jihad, other than "a shadowy from the Spanish case whatever recollections might serve our group...
...The next issue will be dated September race...
...And the stakes are high, so much higher than manganese, platinum, or even gold...
...The generation has lie" next to the concluding lines...
...Commonweal: 420 But memory is short...
...lucidity...
...In view of the military aid the U.S...
...But things are only going to grow The dark side of the boom: bloodier...
...For this they were frequently denounced by fellow II began...
...But it is to remind us of our duties, now and in the future...
...Commonweal Foundation, 15 Dutch St., New The U.S...
...Mauriac, Mounier, Revolutionaries were elated to see workers and peasants Maritain, and the veteran monarchist Georges Bernanos conspontaneously take charge of both their own defense and their tinued the protest, not on behalf of the Spanish Loyalists but on own organizations...
...Yaron was found to have learned that soft-spoken Servite priest have focused attention on the mys- the massacres were underway, but to have neither reported terious intersection between politics and prayer, where the art them nor attempted to stop them...
...10038...
...Spain were dramatically raised...
...It can be assaulted by the most common depriva- • Our editorial on "Judges & Ideology" (July 11) posthumtions...
...They are scarcely more than a gesture, and decidedly less 12, after which regular bi-weekly publication will be when motivated by mere self-righteousness...
...History may impart wisdom...
...passed from power, the wound has healed...
...It may have been a terrible error graph Bernanos always kept on his worktable...
...the party spirit:- • Israel has just named Major General Amos Yaron to be military attache to the U.S...
...But it is illegal to give their names...
...clothing, a bed, a chair...
...bitterness of our day - the civil wars in Central America, for This is a program easy to outline, vexing to implement...
...It is fifty years since the outbreak of Franco's rified by the anti-clerical atrocities that marked the first reNationalist rebellion against the Spanish Republic, and very sponse to the right-wing uprising and molded by a century of little has been said or done to mark the event, in Spain or battle against "the Reds," Catholic spokesmen the world over elsewhere...
...It has been seconded by a $28...
...Lack of presence, conversation, or touch is all it takes...
...According to Moorhead Kennedy, who was held hostage for TRUTH IS RARELY equivalent to beauty...
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