He is obliged to receive from it his justification and authority, without which his action will seem to him absurd or unjust, which would be intolerable. He is obliged to continue to advance in the direction indicated by propaganda, for action demands more action. A siren sounds at 8am, and two minutes' silence is strictly observed. Even drivers on their morning commuter journeys pull over, get out of their cars and stand to attention. In America, the first Holocaust Remembrance Day was proposed by Senator John Danforth in 1979.
Politicians thus show publicly their subservience to the Holocaust and to the Israeli lobbies.
Well, not quite. The proposed day is not simply a repeat of what already happens elsewhere. Mr Dismore's proposal is for the British Holocaust Remembrance Day to be at the end of January, rather than in April, as is the case in America and Israel. The first American Remembrance Day was on the anniversary of the liberation of Dachau by American troops, but the proposal in Britain is that it is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops on January 27 which will set the day for remembrance. Such a choice appears rather surprising.