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Hard-headed Joseph Alsop has had his say on last week's teach-in. In a syndicated column datelined "Cambridge," which appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe under the headline "Harvard Teach-in Misguided," he labeled the participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...
Perhaps Mr. Alsop could set American progressivism a better example. In only a few sentences he manages to grossly misrepresent the aims of the teach-in--to inform not denounce--and its effect--the presentation of an intelligent, knowledgeable, many-sided discussion by some of the areas most distinguished professors...
...doubt about it, Mr. Alsop's tough: he goes right to the front in Viet Nam to get the story. But how can we take his reports from South-East Asia seriously when he can't even get his facts right in Cambridge? attracted large followings, but which are ridiculed by other segments of the societies...
...that he is furious at leaks of any kind; because of them, he has postponed appointments, even changed programs. Members of his staff, sworn to silence on pain of presidential wrath, know better than to be seen chatting with a newsman. The press feud has culminated, noted Columnist Joe Alsop, in an "almost hysterical secretiveness which the Johnson Administration has been carrying to extremes quite unimagined in any previous American Government...
...Overholt's assertion that the Vietminh engaged in senseless killing and torture is not substantiated by any evidence. His claim that, after victory, the Vietminh "substituted worse oppression" is ludicrous. We refer him to a most unsympathetic observer, Joseph Alsop, who, in an article in the New Yorker Magazine, June 25, 1955, described a trip which he had taken through Vietminh controlled areas of South Vietnam. "I could hardly imagine," he wrote, "a communist government that was also a popular government and almost a democratic government." Harvard-Radcliffe May 2nd Committee