Bolivia Unveils Che's Original Diary and Hiroshima Shock

News about “The Bolivian Diary”: Reports say that the Bolivian government unveiled Che’s handwritten diary and several photographs for the first time and plans to publish the diary. What a coincidence!

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Politics began their attention to me and I remember writing an essay on the dropping of the atom bomb for which the form master praised me. I questioned the morality of dropping the bomb on innocent civilians and asked whether mankind was unleashing a horror which could destroy all mankind. I asked whether the West had dropped the bomb on Japan because it was only Asians who would be the victims of the terrible tragedy… (pp. v-vi, “Make it Right for Singapore” by J.B. Jeyaretnam)

When on Aug. 15, 1945, [Chomsky] was shocked by the news of the Hiroshima bombing (“surely among the most unspeakable crimes in history,” he was to write twenty years later – a war crime that dwarfs Guernica), he literally could not talk to anybody at his summer camp and never understood anybody’s reaction. He just walked off by himself into the woods and stayed alone for a couple of hours. He felt completely isolated. (p. 9, “Language and Politics” by Noam Chomsky)