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...Communist leaders of Soviet Russia are outraged by comparisons between Stalinist Russia and Hitlerite Germany made by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. They condemn Solzhenitsyn for informing the free world that the Government of Imperial Russia was "liberal" and "loving" toward the people and that Hitlerites were "gracious" and "merciful" both to the Russians and the peoples of Eastern Europe, which the West failed to protect from the Soviet occupation...
Despite Reston's skepticism toward the Kennedy-Johnson administration's policy in Vietnam, Reston could not bring himself to condemn the policy. He talked instead of "the fundamental question of ends and means," saying he had to have more facts before he could accept the necessity of America's war against the North Vietnamese...
...compulsion to think about Vietnam to FitzGerald's terms. We were not required to analyze and objectify about Vietnam; we had no reason to justify or condemn the U.S. involvement. On the contrary, we were supposed to be fiercely subjective and we were. Nevertheless, the questions troubled us and if you had asked--as we fought and worked the way we were supposed to--we would have said, "It's rotten: somebody's getting screwed...
...itself by failing to do so, and its leaders have disgraced themselves by supporting the forces of oppression. When President Allende nationalized American mining interests in Chile, President Nixon denounced him for failing to respect the rights of property. Will Nixon say tomorrow that Boston's patriots should be condemned for failing to respect the property rights of the East India Company? Will he condemn them for their violence. Surely...
...arresting someone for breaking a flowerpot with his head. But responsibility for Indochina doesn't end with Nixon. The blood of one and a half million people and the suffering of millions more stains the hands of the taxpayers whose money financed the war. Maybe David Dellinger could consistently condemn the violence of Armstrong's battle against the assembled power of the United States. But Dellinger, a lifelong pacifist who would never set off bombs himself, makes a distinction between massive, repressive violence like the terror bombing of Indochina and violent resistance to that sort of repression, like the National...