The proof that there is still A flicker of life in the anemic ideals we think we cherish is that we are deeply ashamed of our failure to answer the calls for help that reached us from Hungary. and are trying to smother the shame with angry rhetoric. ritual resolutions. and. above all. mumblings about "moral force." American organizations raising funds for Hungarian relief report a remarkably genercus response. In other nonSoviet countries. too. the response has been impressive. Governments which have been scandalously indifferent to the fate of fugitives from commnunism are suddenly opening their doors wide to Hungarian refugees. We are today like men who. having watched the obscene murder of a neighbor without daring to interfere. rush to help his widow and orphans. Certainly there is ample reason for our feeling of guilt.
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