ABSTRACT
Justice and humanity's splendid diversity demanded legal protection. As white Southerners stampeded away from the Convention, other matters injurious to Senate ratification developed. For one, Lemkin and several allies fell out among themselves, most disruptively in the case of James Rosenberg, who served with the American Conference of Christians and Jews and as president of the United States Committee for a Genocide Convention. Of the postwar fixations of Lemkin, few equaled his disdain for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its authors, specifically Eleanor Roosevelt. As Europe's age of catastrophe passed into history, finalized by the extinction of Marxist–Leninst regimes in 1989–1991, the US record remained exposed. One can imagine the satisfaction Lemkin might have felt had he learned of considered comments by Roosevelt in 1948 that referred to German kidnapping of Polish children and deportation to the Third Reich for assimilation: "a dreadful kind of genocide".
