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...problems of 1947, of the soul as well as of the mind, were bigger than the abilities of the writers who grappled with them. It was fashionable to indict writers for this condition, but how just was the indictment...
Thomas Mann, the greatest living German writer, is examining Germany's war guilt. He can do what neither Edmund Burke nor Nürnberg's Robert H. Jackson dared-indict a whole people. The evil that lay beneath the Wehrmacht, and the Nazi Party, and the factories, endures. The victors, who underestimated and misunderstood the evil, cannot extirpate it by battle, or military rule or reparations, or trial & punishment. They cannot even limit it until they understand it. So Thomas Mann, now a U.S. citizen, has written of "Germany and the Germans," in the current Yale Review...
...German writer appeals to humanity to condemn the brutal sadism of the Austrians, and they indict, in their righteous anger, the sub-human cruelty of any people who could devise a concentration camp as an instrument of state control...
Burke did not mean that a whole people cannot be morally guilty of crime. . . . What he was driving at was that an indictment can only be charged against a definite person or persons, and is a legal device operating under technical legal restrictions, while a people is ... composed of an unspecific number of indefinite persons, whom it is thus impossible legally to indict...
...growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants"-a new version of the "enemy of the people," the formula that Russia uses to indict Nazis and collaborators. Perhaps Britain believed that Mikolajczyk could still participate in the Lublin Government, thus effecting a compromise between the Polish factions. But Lublin's President Berut and Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski were publicly committed to keeping Mikolajczyk out of their Government...