A Problem From Hell: America And The Age Of Genocide - Plot & Excerpts
Instead, we may well be near the last."-U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren'"One Hand Tied"Senator Proxmire had enjoyed little success using his speech-a-day genocide convention ritual to draw attention to the Cambodia genocide. But he had even less luck generating support for the convention itself. A small group of extremists were unrelenting in their opposition to U.S. ratification. The Liberty Lobby, which the Anti-Defamation League called the "strongest voice of anti-Semitism in America," published a weekly tabloid, the Spotlight, that claimed 330,000 paid subscribers and boasted a radio network of 425 stations in forty-six states.The lobby slammed U.S. efforts to denaturalize and deport Nazi collaborators and war criminals living in the United States. It claimed that ratification of the genocide convention would allow missionaries to be tried before an international tribunal for genocide "on grounds that to convert cannibals in Africa to Christianity is to destroy a culture." Other ultra-rightist groups chimed in.
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