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Hanson W. Baldwin expressed essentially this point of view in the magazine section of this Sunday's New York Times, and summed up his argument by stating, "....it is far better to fight in Vietnam--on China's doorstep--than fight some years hence in Hawaii, on our own frontiers...
...became Chancellor of the Exchequer, a post for whose decimal definitives ("those damn little dots") he was not well suited. His first budget was the first link in the deflationary chain that led to a general strike, a nationwide depression, and the fall of the second Baldwin government...
Once Sargent invited the editor of Paris' Communist daily L'Humanité to Catacombs 65. Two summers ago, he helped Novelist James Baldwin organize a miniature version of Washington's civil rights march. Currently, the American Church has its own theologian-in-residence-Sydney Ahlstrom of Yale Divinity School-who teaches a weekly course to 80 adults of the congregation. Sargent occasionally appears on French television and at ecumenical conferences involving French Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy. He chain-smokes his way through an 18-hour day filled with the normal routine of pastors everywhere-teaching, counseling...
...BALDWIN SMITH...
Ellison, no less than Baldwin, indicts slavery and segregation for the lasting wounds that they have inflicted on the Negro. But he does not believe that the Negro's life in the U.S. has been a complete horror story. In spite of lynchings, beatings and everyday insults, the "harsh discipline of Negro life" has instilled in Negroes certain admirable qualities that are lacking in most whites: patience, humor, a "rugged sense of life." Ellison's own life in Oklahoma City, he reminisces, was happy and vital, even though it was segregated, even though his mother was thrown into...