Mr. Benenson's organization assists people who are imprisoned for matters of conscience; Mr. Cherne's assists people who have managed to escape from totalitarian countries. An often profound discussion of how, theoretically and practically, people who seek to help the oppressed go about their work. LC: "Mark, can I ask you this question.... As I gather, you're selecting a kind of symmetrical ... package-Communist, right-wing repression, and neutralist." MB: "Uh-huh." LC: "With the implication that these three forms of society are likely equally to punish dissent, imprison the conscientious objector; and there's nothing in my experience-and this is what startles me-that leads me to an understanding of what basis you can possibly have for what is at best an artificial-" MB: "I'll admit immediately that it's artificial and it's a tremendous oversimplification." LC: "Why? Why do you do it?" MB: "The reason for it is very simple. When we go to a Communist government to get somebody out, we want to be able to tell them that we're working on some Greek cases; when we go to the Greeks, we want to be able to tell them that we're devoting as much attention to the cases of people who are imprisoned in Yugoslavia or Hungary or the Soviet Union."
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