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Extraction Summary
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Events
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Document Information
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Book manuscript / legal exhibit
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2.49 MB
Summary
This document appears to be a page (333) from a manuscript or book included in House Oversight exhibits. It details the author's conflict with 'the Guild' (likely the National Lawyers Guild) regarding their perceived bias against Israel and refusal to criticize the Soviet Union. The author recounts a conversation and correspondence with Guild Vice-President John Quigley regarding a request to send an observer to the trial of Anatoly Shcharansky in the USSR.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| John Quigley | Professor / National Vice-President of the Guild |
Received a request from the author to send an observer to the Shcharansky trial; admitted the Guild would likely not ...
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| Eleanor Roosevelt | Historical Figure |
Referenced as the spirit of neutral human rights advocacy.
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| Anatoly Shcharansky | Defendant |
Subject of a Soviet trial for which the author requested a Guild observer.
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| Author (Unnamed) | Narrator |
Writes in first person ('I decided', 'In my article'); challenges the Guild's neutrality.
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| The Guild |
Likely the National Lawyers Guild; described as shifting politically in the 60s/70s.
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| SDS |
Students for a Democratic Society; source of new Guild members.
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| PLO |
Palestine Liberation Organization; endorsing them described as a litmus test.
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| International Association of Democratic Layers |
Organization with close relationship to the Soviet Union (Note: likely typo for 'Lawyers').
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| House Oversight Committee |
Source of the document (Footer stamp).
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Timeline (2 events)
Locations (2)
| Location | Context |
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Location of a trial of an alleged terrorist; subject of Guild criticism.
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Location of the Shcharansky trial; Guild reluctant to criticize.
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Relationships (2)
Author challenged Quigley's organization to prove its neutrality; Quigley responded candidly then formally.
Quigley identified as national vice-president of the guild.
Key Quotes (3)
"Basically ... you had a situation where a bunch of Third World types wanted to ensure that the Jews in the guild – and the Jews were almost certainly a majority – would be forced to eat crow"Source
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Quote #1
"The problem is that we do not approach matters such as this purely from a human-rights perspective."Source
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Quote #2
"The only conclusion one can reasonably draw... is that the guild is as unwilling to criticize Communist countries as it is eager to criticize Israel and other Western democracies."Source
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Quote #3
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