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...beyond the reach of today's intellectual journals. They measure their success on another level-by the quality, if not the quantity, of their audience, by the impact of their ideas on people who may never have heard of them. Judged by these criteria, the Anglo-American monthly Encounter is a success indeed...
...born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1920. In July 1943, I lost members of my family, friends and my home through Anglo-American air raids, which almost destroyed my home town. These raids on Hamburg and other German cities, terrifying and hate-inspiring as they were at the time, played a decisive role in destroying Hitler's totalitarianism. Now I am a Canadian citizen. I am firmly convinced that my present religious and political freedom are owed directly to American participation in World War II. I do not envy President Johnson's position...
Wilson already had come out against the U.S. bombing of the Hanoi and Haiphong oil installations. With Anglo-American relations at stake, he would be pushed no farther. Summoning Labor M.P.s to a closed-door caucus the day before the Commons debate, he blistered the left-wingers, declared that some of them sought a Viet Cong victory. "What government, Western, Communist or neutral, has done more than the Labor government to seek a peace in Viet Nam?" demanded Wilson. When no one replied, he said dryly: "The silence is deafening and overwhelming...
...West's unique concept of liberty under law is nearly incomprehensible. The idea of a political opposition is repugnant to a world in which consensus and unanimity rather than creative competition seem the only appropriate atmosphere. The Western practice of loyal opposition seems only further proof of Anglo-American cynicism and hypocrisy. For the existence of such political opposition presupposes the integrity of the lone individual against the group, a tradition that is nonexistent among Asians, who see the man with power as the man with the cosmic forces behind him-a man unwise to oppose...
Undergraduate organizations proliferated on both sides of the neutrality question. The American Student Defense League was formed to "arouse and prepare students for American defense" and to urge an Anglo-American pact. The Harvard Student Union emphatically opposed involvement, as did the Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention. Conant's frequent public speeches helped polarize the issue. On a speaking tour of the South in October he called for immediate and complete American armament; in November he said that no limit should be put on our aid to the Allies; by May, on a national hookup, he urged immediate entry into...