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...among the strongest supporters that the President has on the war. In many other cases, the neo-isolationist mood may well feed on popular discouragement over Viet Nam. But, as Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach noted recently at Connecticut's Fairfield University, it would be "a grievous and dangerous delusion to believe all our problems would be solved if we withdrew from Viet Nam, or from Asia, or from anywhere else." From Latin America, New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger wrote last week: "Our humiliation in Viet Nam would persuade guerrilla nuclei here of the efficacy...
...turn around and leave." Speaking after Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington had urged a bombing pause in the North and a cease-fire in the South as a means of testing Hanoi's intentions, Kuchel warned that a suspension of the air war now "would result in grievous harm to our men fighting at Con Thien and Gio Linh" as well as other points near the Demilitarized Zone...
...hardly seemed an even contest. There was Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, backed by a reputation for judicial probity and five fellow members of the Committee on Standards and Conduct, demanding the censure of Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd for perpetrating "a grievous wrong" against the entire Senate. And there was Dodd, his name sullied by 18 months of accusation and investigation, his own records and statements hurled as weapons against him, his only asset an instinct for political survival...
...particularly grievous fault committed by Americans was the World War II internment of 112,985 Japanese-Americans in dreary camps for as long as four years. They lost an estimated $400 million in confiscated property, earned no more than $19 a month in the camps. Although not a single Japanese-American was convicted during the war of spying, and many served in the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat team, which won more decorations than any outfit in U.S. Army history for its exploits in Italy and France, the detainees were not released until just before...
Setting the play inside an insane asylum, with the actors as a palsied herd of flustered souls, is the first and most grievous wrong. It is a commonplace of Shakespearean criticism to say that some of the characters in Twelfth Night act so cruel that they seem insane, but that is no license to turn the play into a cut-rate Marat-Sade. To interpret the play that way is to say, "Be calm, audience, real people are nice. You have to be bonkers to be vicious." The audience should not be allowed to rest so easy...