No ordinary museum

...not have helped at all...

...thousands, of other faces I saw there...

...so often done harm by doing what we It was an avowed purpose of the Alliance thought was good...

...But it is equally Seererh' irained hr Arraeric ans...

...Each ning, there was a little orphaned boy holding a pair of grown-up shoes and laughing...

...There was a film clip of a mother and mination camp...

...God called we were sending food abroad at some sacIn his remarks at the dedication cere- out to Moses and, albeit with some hesi- rifice, and the majority of them approved...

...But Chile was a country of sound demoIt is almost twenty years since I pon- cratic institutions and our interdependence dered problems like these in a Common- grew in many ways...

...It is a question mark...

...And with her family, was liquidated soon after...

...It was the fall of Some critics, I know, regard the use of her son, a toddler, who was rocking 1943...

...was taken to the Treblinka exter- ington, D.C., during its opening week...

...And doing long-range harm: "Over the years developing nations became extremely dependent on food assistance...

...Climatologists tell us that derous oppression under Pinochet) shows and the op-ed pages are taking second looks the conditions there did not result from a how very complex the problem can beat American foreign policy initiatives...

...We are almost incurably mission- to technical assistance now...

...Also present are Americans darkly sus- Advisers to the administration in the early picious of all our efforts at aid in the 1960s thought they saw in the rise of the past-disposed to see in them only dis- Christian Democratic party a third force guises for "economic imperialism...

...in Iraq do more harm than good...

...rmgard Rosenberg was twenty-six tied as I walked through the United States So I tried to hold onto just a few years old when her brother Heinz Memorial Holocaust Museum in Wash- faces-usually the faces of children...

...The sense of seeing only fragments of the horrible madness of the Holocaust made its sheer magnitude that much more real...

...We should be waiting for the in Britain, and about the senseless murders, the sort formerly dust of feminism to fall," says the Reverend Bill Scott, vicar only heard of in American cities, that are being committed in of Saint Mary's...

...lar nation crawls wounded out of the recession, a divided Church At no point in recent history has the Church of England been of England is being forced to examine how it can maintain and, in such a fog as this...

...So it was that our first weal column and I think what I wrote then anti-Allende effort took a form that might has relevance today: seem acceptable to many Americans even "How will we ever sort it out...

...We have today...

...feet, for the place on which you stand is sistance programs...

...Irmgard, dedication, President Bill Clinton cited the In the past most Americans thought that I cannot imagine being in your shoes...

...Just The sub-Sahara is one current and very Allende and the ensuing years of murnow experts and pundits on the talk shows painful example...

...As most Anglo-Catholics will argue, today's in many places, regain, its position as England's moral cencontroversy is about a great deal more than whether or not women ter...

...I simply cannot imagine being it is more than I knew about the hundreds, on a screen in a narrow hallway with in her shoes...

...it was toA PLACE TO TAKE OFF ONE'S SHOES tally overwhelming...

...Maybe they had been his faAMTUCHF VERMERKE 1J*A $ LI Z .' VI I ther's shoes...

...How much people try to K-;n.;tha6,r ,r*F,, hold onto what was theirs...

...the "Isn't-this-where-I-came in...

...It is about the escalation of crime and homelessness in London this spring...

...At the museum there was a huge pile of shoes-little children's shoes, 10: 4 June 1993 Commonweal workboots, women's pumps, shoes that ing or lesson to be gleaned from the arguable that a sparse nomadic populamade your feet ache terribly after an en- tragedy of the Holocaust, Wiesel said that tion would have adapted to the long tire day of uselessly carrying heavy at least we must learn not to remain in- drought and had a much higher rate of surstones up a hill, shoes that marched you different when people suffer...

...Now we have come to Reluctant to proclaim any universal mean- holy ground...

...Why have our ef- Take only one example...

...We of the developed nations sank of another seemed at any given point...

...climate shift alone (they are in dispute come, no matter how needed or well-inDo the unintended consequences of our about whether there is indeed a climate tentioned our intrusion into the affairs efforts to "help" suggest that we should shift...

...Each about ten or twenty different films runBut it was Irmgard's identity card I car- screen displayed powerful footage...

...D the decidedly uncomfortable knowledge that we were disposing of our surpluses and helping our own economy in the procOF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy ess...

...Th al'.cthe other...

...And, as ally a year-and-a-half ago, would we have pendence patterns followed...

...Did our intervention operation with the local economic elite...

...It is about the fact that less than 3 percent of Paul Jaskunas is a student at Oberlin College...

...It's very much living in a fog, as it were, and London neighborhoods...

...As the years pass some word missionary today...

...syndrome...

...I couldn't absorb it all...

...All I know about looked so quiet and still and vacant...

...The Minsk ghetto in the such cards as a condescending gimmick...

...Perhaps the vival...

...Every face cried out for recognition but so many simply flashed onto one of the many screens and then disapNO ORDINARY MUSEUM peared...

...We cannot shift abruptly think every columnist must share forts...

...PAUL JASKUNAS should say Mass...

...mony for the Holocaust museum, Elie tation, Moses said "Here I am...

...Since between the repressive and the exploitaall human effort is mixed in motive, there tion on one hand, and the Communists on is truth in the allegation...

...While newspaper pundits complain when one lives in a fog one tries to be as careful as one can of the corruption of British youth and the increasingly secuuntil the fog lifts...

...At every international for Progress that the United States should conference we face bitter accusations from cooperate with every effort for democrathird-world delegates...

...The pile of toothbrushes was among the most troubling displays...

...It is at least ways in Latin America, doing so in codeterred the Serbs...

...people earnestly, desperately wanted to hold onto their "articles of daily living...

...If we had acted more decisive- A rise in population and new food de- developing the copper mines...

...had become nothing but a curse...

...He USSR, where Irmgard had been deported It was helpful to me...

...Their attempt to maintain hope saw them packing their bags and bringing them on the freight cars...

...OF SEVERAL MINDS Liz Leibold McCloskey glass case documented important information...

...Irmgard is what was printed on the card then in a film of still photos of some of Irmgard and her family were never heard given to me as I entered the museum, yet the children orphaned by the Holocaust, from again...

...passage from Exodus (3:4-5...

...Chile (including the assassination of in slightly different guise...

...to your death, shoes that may have once place to start, as Moses did, is to take off The whole problem of world hunger has grounded you and supported you which our shoes...

...The tragedy in topics resurface again and again forts gone so "aft agley...

...a three-way struggle among Eduardo Frei Commonweal 4 June 1993: 11...

...And then In addition, millions of Americans gave Wiesel said that the museum does not pro- God said, "Remove your sandals from your to church- and charity-sponsored food asvide any answers...

...Not only the acs .a r1, r.,;:yrn ne€ s:ks~M~ s,,, Zii:i ncj* Aiegv big things like their faith (which Elie j v~k L',Yf Wiesel said was consumed by the flames at Auschwitz) and their belief in huI4flJa Cdv a WanFi~dr manity (which Anne Frank wrote that she still maintained, despite all that had happened) and their hope (which the Nazis did everything within their power to destroy) and each other (which became impossible), but they held onto their belongings: their toothbrushes, mirrors, umbrellas, and their shoes...

...slowly back and forth on a bed...

...cy and independence in Latin America...

...that of American business exploiting and anyway...

...He has been the English population darkens Anglican church doors on following the debate in the Church of England while studying Sundays...

...Was the problem deeper wells and taught the agricultural Granted, our first presence in Chile was solving itself in Somalia without our help arts to the nomadic people of the region...

...ary in spirit, no matter how suspect the Political aid is even more questionable...

...Between 1954 and 1969," Dan AMERICANS ABROAD Morgan reported in the Washington Post, "free food or commodities received on easy WHEN GOOD INTENTIONS GO AWRY credit terms accounted for more than 30 percent of total food imports of developing countries...

...In his speech at the museum been compounded by our pattern of aid...

...In Chile this was shaping up as true that Americans saw good in our ef- -jiennr, so were we...