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Your April 2 account of the Nation's attempt by a libel suit to stop the perfectly legitimate and justified criticism of its pro-Soviet foreign editor, J. Alvarez del Vayo, is typical of the double standard of morality of all "totalitarian-liberals." It was bad enough that the Nation refused to publish Mr. Creenberg's mild letter. But to resort to police methods to prevent its publication elsewhere betrays the hollowness of the Nation's claims to being a liberal periodical. Were the many individuals whom the Nation criticizes on political grounds to resort to libel...
...there is pain, Alvarez believes in giving drugs to the dying patient with the utmost generosity. What if he does become addicted? It will make no difference in his grave. Moreover, naked suffering brings on death more quickly than morphine and other analgesics...
...Alvarez does not prescribe diets for old people except in cases of absolute necessity (e.g., diabetes, severe gout, swelling of the legs). In general, he believes in letting oldsters, whether healthy or ill, eat, smoke and drink what they like. He told of two middle-aged women who brought their spry, neat, 80-year-old father in to see him. Another doctor had found a little high blood pressure, and had deprived the old boy of his pipe, his bedtime highball, his red meat, his table salt, his puttering in the garden and his strolls around town. The father...
...Alvarez refused. He assured the women their father would very likely die all the sooner if deprived of his comforts, and have a worse time over...
...When I myself lie dying," said Dr. Alvarez, "I hope I will have by me some wise, kindly physician who will keep interns from frequently pulling me up to examine my chest, or from constantly puncturing my veins, or from giving me enemas or drastic medicines. I am sure that at the end I will very much want to be left alone...