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Sidney M. Goldfarb '65 will read from his poetry at 3 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The Harvard-Radcliffe May 2nd Committee will sponsor the reading...
...lectures, May 2nd rallies flashed in my mind. So what if Great Britain is a minor power now? "Yes," I said. "I'd want Britain fighting with...
Adherents of the May 2nd Movement, and of similar groups, ignore the other half of the reality. They alternatively argue that the Chinese have nothing to do with the specific injustices at issue in Vietnam (i.e. it is simply a peasant revolt in which the U.S. has no business meddling); or that the liberal warmongers malign the peaceloving Chinese with their charges of aggression; or, in their frankest moments, that Chinese imperialism is better for the East than American imperialism. This underlying bias is in no way preferable to the liberal bias. It is one of the minor tragedies...
What are the slogans of a movement that tries to extract the truth from both the liberal and radical positions? What does one reply to the crowd of students that the May 2nd Movement can muster, that march down Massachusetts Avenue chanting "Stop the War in Vietnam, Bring the Troops Home"? "Neither May 2nd nor McGeorge Bundy" is the sentiment of the synthesis. But that does not make a very good slogan. A sound American foreign policy involves, as Stanley Hoffmann has said in a different context, "treading between the abysses." That means supporting radical social reform while opposing subservience...
Last Friday an article prepared by members of the May 2nd Committee claimed that the U.S. is battling an indigenous peasant revolt in South Vietnam and advanced American withdrawal. These letters are part of the response. Paul R. DeRensis '66 Brain J. H. Lederer '67 November 9th Committee