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_003394316	Eppstein, John, 1895-1988.	Defend these human rights! : each man's stake in the United Nations, a Catholic view	1948		.txt	text/plain	17595	846	63	T h e war gave a fresh urgency to the defense of human rights and liberties. Meanwhile, those who from mental sloth or from political sympathy with the Soviet Government have continued to use this fatuous vocabu- lary in the press, literature, radio and politics of the Western World have succeeded in blinding millions of honest but ill-informed people to the central fact of the present situation; which is, that this pseudo-Democracy is itself the chief enemy and oppressor of those human rights and values which we set out to vindicate in the war.2 • It is necessary to bear this paradox in mind when we come to consider the practical means by which human rights can, at this stage, be nationally and inter- nationally safeguarded.	cache/_003394316.txt	txt/_003394316.txt