Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relative Status. Tory Nigel Birch concurred on Britain's shrunken international power, carried the argument a step further by depicting the new potency of Europe if Britain added its considerable weight to the Common Market. The result "would be a population larger than Russia or America," he said, "a community occupying the fairest part of the earth, comprising the most intelligent, hardworking people in the world-and far better able to help the Commonwealth and supply capital and know-how to underdeveloped countries." On the other hand, if Britain stayed out, Birch warned, it would not long retain what...
...hero of U.S. conservatives, Goldwater has been unfairly charged with the sins of the right wing's political cranks, whom he has tried to steer toward moderation and toward a place in the G.O.P. But Goldwater critics could easily make hay of his refusal to reprimand the John Birch Society, even though Barry has publicly tut-tutted the overzealous Red-hunting of his friend Robert Welch, the society's founder. Of the society, Barry says: "I only know one chapter, the one in my home town. They are the finest people in my community...
Trouble started last April when the Overseas Weekly mounted an all-out assault on General Walker, charged that by pamphlet and speech he was indoctrinating his troops with the far-right politics of the John Birch Society. Walker, the paper reported, had made public statements to the effect that Edward R. Murrow and Columnist Walter Lippmann were "confirmed Communists" and that 60% of the U.S. press was Communist controlled. As a result of the story. General Walker was relieved of his command. Walker has sued an Overseas Weekly reporter for slander-and Marion Rospach has sued the general for slander...
Sympathetic Relations. Inevitably, some of the Red newsmen succumbed to habit and unreeled a few meters of the Red line. After the race riots in Birmingham and Montgomery, Pravda's Viktor Maevsky discovered a parallel between the "fascists" of the John Birch Society and the "fascists" who beat up the Freedom Riders. Erofeev complained about the "irresponsibility of the American press." Said he: "We met American corespondents at length, and the next morning articles would appear, vindictive and hostile, destructive of sympathetic relations between our countries...
...Birch Society literature flooded room from a spout near the door ed by two female Legionnaires. no, that's not the same thing. Take and one of these. Here's some more. free. Haven't you read The Life Birch...