Volume 32, Number 18 · November 21, 1985
Peace: The View from Prague
By Vaclav Havel, Translated by Erazim V. Kohak
Some time ago, two appealing young Italian women arrived in Prague with a women's proclamation calling for everything good: respect for human rights, disarmament, demilitarization of children's education, and respect for all human beings. They were collecting signatures from both parts of our divided Europe. I found them touching: they could have easily been cruising the Mediterranean on the yachts of wealthy husbands (they could surely have found some)—and here they were, rattling around Europe to make the world better. I felt sorry for them because virtually none of the better-known Prague women dissidents wanted to sign. (Understandably, the two did not even try to approach nondissidents.)
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