Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least one conservative member of the HYRC has cracked under the strain of belonging to an organization that harbors both John Birch YAFers and the publisher of Advance...
...political moderate, Kuchel is a prime target of the ultraright, partly because he was originally appointed to the Senate by Earl Warren, who ranks at the very top of rightist demonology, and partly because he made a stinging Senate speech last year against the John Birch Society...
...snare"), and the United Nations ("It hasn't accomplished a thing except to permit a spy ring to operate within our country"). Also opposing Kuchel is Loyd Wright, a former president of the American Bar Association, who is campaigning as a states' rights fundamentalist. Although not a Birch Society member, Wright says, "I wish we had 10,000 more -perhaps 10 million-of the kind of men I know are in this society...
...semisecret John Birch Society has long had a rule against issuing official statements on issues of public policy. Last week that rule was broken when 22 members of the society's 25-man governing council, meeting in Manhattan at the Harvard Club, put forth a pronouncement deploring "intervention by the United States Government, in collusion with the United Nations, to destroy by armed force the independence of Katanga...
...motives, if not its actions, felt a vague unease. The New York Post, a champion of the U.N. since its birth in San Francisco, searched for encouraging words, came up with an editorial noting that some of the current criticism was issuing from the far-right John Birch Society. Post Columnist Max Lerner took the line that since the U.N. had ignited the fire in Katanga, its defenders were stuck: "In this case, there is plenty of room for doubt about the wisdom of the U.N.'s action but no room for hesitancy about backing...