Word: editorialists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, what has moved the men in the Kremlin to desperate reaction against Czechoslovakia and perhaps Rumania. Their responses are clearly those of fearful men, and in them is exposed not the Soviet Union's strength but its weakness. It was almost with compassion that a Czechoslovak editorialist in Bratislava Pravda, before the censorship closed down on him, observed that "not Czechoslovakia, but the great power Russia, has arrived at the crossroads of history. It arrived with tanks, troop carriers and hungry and grimy soldiers who failed to understand why they were sent. Let us remember the philosopher...
...aging columnist and the California editorialist hardly seemed to be talking about the same thing. But their disparate readings of the Hawaiian conference were symptomatic of the whole U.S. press. The conference, said the Detroit Free Press, was a disaster that "brought into sharp focus the schizoid personality of our foreign policy." That wasn't the conference reported by the Washington Post, which found that it "did what it obviously was intended to do from the beginning." It brought together "officials who are going to have to work together if the war is to be skillfully conducted...
Beitz & Barks. The expellee Evangelical Bishop of Schleswig-Holstein resigned in protest; the Socialist chairman of the Expellees' Federation cried out against the offense to Heimatsrecht. Swastikas sprouted on walls in normally progressive Berlin. Evangelical Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hanover received scores of hate letters, and Berlin Editorialist Karl Silex (himself a native of Stettin, now Szczecin), who welcomed the memorandum as a departure from "taboos and legal claims," found the front door of his house in flames-the work of Hetmat-righteous zealots...
...opposition in Japan to the Viet Nam war. The giant Sohyo labor union claims to have garnered 8,000,000 signatures already on an antiwar petition. Polls show that 75% of the Japanese public opposes the bombing of North Viet Nam. "Asian problems should be solved by Asians," wrote Editorialist Shizuo Maruyama in the Japan Quarterly. Last week a group of 30 Japanese intellectuals took a full-page ad in the New York Times protesting...
Encouraging Signs. Should U.S. law thus make it a crime to be a Bad Samaritan? At the very least it should compensate rescuers for injuries and lawsuits, argued Chicago Law Professor Norval Morris. Would the country then blossom with Good Samaritans? Perhaps, but as Washington Post Editorialist Alan Barth wryly recalled: "The original Good Samaritan was fortunate in not arriving on the scene until after the thieves had set upon the traveler, robbed him and beaten him half to death. The Samaritan cared for him, but he did not put himself in any peril by doing...