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...organizations as to who their allies and who their opponents are, as a clear perspective facilitates social struggle. We will be found in almost any organization for peace, for jobs, or for freedom. Naturally we do not join subversive organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan or the John Birch Society. We join with people in their everyday and long-rang struggle for a better life...
...inspirational speeches about party unity; many unforgiving Republicans are positively smacking their lips in anticipation of the revenge they will take on him for his defection in '64. In Miami, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton recently urged Republicans to isolate the "radical fringe," presumably meaning the John Birch Society. In Arizona, a syndicated columnist named Goldwater said that he thought the party might do better to exorcise its "left side...
...renewal foes from Charlestown and Roxbury, along with members of Students for a Democratic Society, and representatives of the John Birch society, had gathered to rally the cause of the North Harvard residents. Shortly after Boston city counsilor Katherine Craven, a colorful and outspoken renewal critic heard of the situation and rushed to the scene...
Reading about the battle of the sycamores in today's CRIMSON reminds me of another road being quietly built along this side of the river between the Eliot and Arsenal bridges. The not unpleasant little stand of scrub red birch that used to be there, below the cemetery, will soon be replaced by pavement and another stream of the ubiquitous cars that seem to come out of the woodwork nowadays. Roger A. C. Williams...
People who think the Far Right took the ten count last November should visit California's 27th Congressional District. This grotesquely shaped hunk of Los Angeles County was designed, by a Democratic legislature, to get rid of a Republican Congressman who was a member of the John Birch Society. The voters cooperated in 1962. But in 1964, the Democratic Congressman retired, and the Republican candidate--who stands perhaps 1 to the left of Birch--won. The 27th was one of four Congressional Districts outside the South to go Democratic in 1962 and Republican in 1964. And it is no coincidence...