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“But the world must never forget..
for the errors we forget are easily
repeated”
... Looking back at history and at the Nuremberg Laws I began to see
our work in the Senate in a new light. The memory of the Holocaust and of the
Nuremberg Laws are a challenge to us to be ever conscious as we oo about our
daily activities in this place. ..And I recognized once more the importance of observ
ing the Days of Remembrance. The Holocaust is a blight on thecompfexmofhis
tory an episode which is tragic, and so painful it would be easv to foroet R, ,t hp
world must never forget... for the errors we forget are easily repeated '
Senator Mack Mattingly
Member, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council
Remarks to U.S. Senate, April, 1986.
Mack and 0 <n Mattingly view the Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry exhibit.
Senator Mattingly at Days of Remembrance Ceremony 1966, U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
Mack Mattingly
U.S. Senate
Leadership Georgia
Can Be Proud Of
■ Mack Mattingly has consistently
opposed U.S. arms sales to Arab
nations hostile to Israel.
- Co-sponsored resolution opposing sale
of missiles to Saudi Arabia, April 1986.
- Involved in 1985 effort to prevent Saudi
Arabia from acquiring American arms.
-Signed joint resolution opposing arms
sales to Jordan, October, 1985.
■ Mack Mattingly supported the ratifica
tion of the Genocide Convention.
■ Mack Mattingly has been a strong ally
of the movement for freedom for Soviet
Jewry
- Participated in the Refusenik Roll Call
Observation sponsored by the National
Council for Soviet Jewry
- Carolyn Mattingly serves on the
Executive Committee of Congressional
Wives for Soviet Jewry
- Urged President Reagan to focus
attention on the plight of Soviet Jews
during the Iceland Summit with
General Secretary Gorbachev.
- Has called for the Soviet Government
to honor the Helsinki Final Act on
behalf of the Davidovitch family the
Bronshteins, and thousands of other
refusenik families.
■ Mack Mattingly has shown concern for
the protection and settlement of refugees.
- Pushed for the resumption of the airlift
of thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel,
February 1985.
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