Word: alsop
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...consensus of our people ... it is a consensus among the State Department, Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency and the White House staff." College professors and students cried out that the U.S. should abandon Viet Nam entirely, that Johnson was a warmonger. New York Herald Tribune Columnist Joseph Alsop complained about Lyndon's close personal scrutiny of the details of war: "The President is asking for very bad trouble by trying to act as both field marshal and top sergeant in a war halfway 'round the world, in a country he does not know, with combatants, tactics, terrain...
...Columnist Joseph Alsop...
Touring Europe last week, Columnist Joe Alsop complained that U.S. newspapers were giving aid and comfort to this kind of anti-Americanism abroad at a time when the "motives and aims of the Government's action must be given the benefit of the doubt." Said Alsop...
Inner Resolve. In spite of Alsop's complaint, the press abroad quoted only sparingly from U.S. newspapers. While the French were scathingly critical of the Dominican intervention, the British, in general, were low-keyed in their response and often downright sympathetic. After its first harsh comment, the Times of London added: "If President Johnson has taken the deliberate risk of touching Latin American feelings on their most sensitive spot by recalling the days when Theodore Roosevelt policed the Caribbean with marines, it is presumably because American feelings too have been touched on their most sensitive spot - the prospect...
...this not, Alsop and other columnists ask, the very kind of logic that made the West accede to Hitler's first demands? But there is no fruitful comparison between Ho Chi Minh and Hitler, or even between Mao Tse-tung and Hitler. The old-line liberals who argue this way, who talk hard to expiate past errors of softness, are committing the opposite error of rigid adherence to an old standard that has no application here. There are valid reasons for the North Vietnamese to want the reunification promised at the Geneva Conference to take place, and it is obviously...