Scholarly Vladimir Koretsky, Soviet professor of international law, was worried about Western notions of free speech and other rights of man last week. In a quiet corner at Lake Success, where a U.N. committee is trying to draft an International Bill of Rights, Koretsky scented a tendency to put the individual ahead of the state.
Said Koretsky, speaking theoretically: "Man should have no rights that place him in opposition to the community. Man opposed to the community is nothing."
Far from Lake Success, another Soviet-trained theoretician—Bulgaria's heavy-lidded Communist Boss Georgi Dimitrov —explained how this doctrine worked in applied Bulgarian politics. Said Dimitrov...