Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ction, as I prepared to speak today, I was reminded of a text that has often been with me, namely, the Harvard commencement address given by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn in 1978 on the decline of courage. We lack courage, spectacularly and often. Basically, today I just wanted to tell the General Assembly that the app

those who denounce its attitudes or try to curb its continued imperialistic and political expansionism and its aim of world domination. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn said during a television interview in Great Britain: "Detente is necessary but with hands open; proof must be given that the hands do not hold stones

d depth of the change in the international climate. Our concern for detente should not lead us to ignore the desperate bid for freedom by men such as Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Levich and other scientists and thinkers who fall under governmental harassment and oppression. 87. The saga of Soviet Jewry belongs to th