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While indicating his opposition to the war, the younger Schlesinger said that he would not have handed his card in if he had known that a recruiter was being held captive. "There was a lack of factual knowledge about what was going on at the time," he said...
Beneath his double disguise as biographer and historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, 80, is really a frustrated epic poet who writes a kind of factual legend celebrating the archetypal figure of the Great Sailor. With Pulitzers flying from his yardarms for biographies of Columbus and John Paul Jones, Morison has now given chase to a third incarnation of the Great Sailor-and by his own standards, has come up luffing...
...Among them Britain's David Irving, whose factual account of Sikorski's death, Accident, was published in London last week. Irving leaves open the possibility of sabotage, but he is not convinced by any other explanations of the crash. Other historians have pointed out that Polish extremists had more to gain than the British from Sikorski's death...
...Organization Man" [Aug. 25] is an outstanding example of factual, in-depth reporting. Please accept my compliments for an objective and accurate description of that elusive enemy, the Viet Cong. The success of our military operations in Viet Nam is dependent in large measure upon the support and confidence of an informed public. Perceptive articles such as this provide a valuable service to the nation and to your reading public...
...history professor at Budapest University I and now a political lecturer at the University of Reading. Their involvement in politics, he writes, is "fundamentally nonintellectual. It is practically impossible to carry on a rational argument about Viet Nam, to hear a case against U.S. policy made in coherent, analytical, factual terms. Secure under the protection of U.S. firepower-and knowing this, and hating himself for knowing it-the intellectual cries out for more stories of American atrocities...