Elsewhere in this issue there are appreciations of our good friend Isaac Deutscher, We have to add to those general appreciations a particular one, Isaac Deutscher collaborated with the team around The Week on several practical ventures: notably the International War Crimes Tribunal and NALSO educational activities, He was fierce and painstaking in his determination that this work be done in the same "careful and impeccable style" as his own scholastic activities, From this joint work we came to appreciate his fine qualities and learnt many lessons, But if he was stern in his demands for accuracy and truth he was also gentle and considerate. He combined these great human qualities with political principle and judgment. We can say with pride and honesty that on every important living political question we stood on the same side as Isaac Deutscher, His stand on Vietnam, the Negro struggle, the Middle East crisis, on the struggle for democracy in the Communist world, against Wilsonism, and other issues too numerous to mention, were both an encouragement and inspiration for us. Isaac Deutscher, the man is dead; but Isaac Deutscher the teacher, the politician and humanist lives in the work of those he inspired and educated.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 8, No. 8, 24 August 1967
Farewell to a Great Scholar and Socialist
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