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Into the echoing marble depths of Peking's Great Hall of the People snaked line after line of restless Red Guards, still in the capital despite earlier orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian dignitaries and the annual rubber-stamp session of the Chinese Parliament. As 10,000 Red Guards stared up at a triple-tiered ceiling studded with stars, Premier Chou En-lai appeared onstage. What ensued last week was the stiffest rebuke that the Guards have received to date-and an indication...
...oppose the draft unequivocally. It is an instrument of oppression both here and abroad. The so-called "commitments" for which the power structure claims we need an army are those of an imperialist foreign policy. Few Americans have vested interests in United Fruit or Standard Oil. Yet it is to protect the interests of precisely such corporations that American soldiers are forced to kill and die. No American would willingly give up his life--or even two years of it--just to protect the business interests of the few. Thus the Establishment must persuade the soldier that revolutions are Communist...
...hero (Von Sydow) is a prune-faced New England parson insuperably identified with deity. Blankly unable to perceive that the islanders are more Christian than the Christians, this religious imperialist with ruthless righteousness throws down their god of love and raises up in its stead a god of wrath. With their religion in ruins, the Hawaiians lie open to all the blessings of civilization: whisky, syphilis and economic exploitation. By film's end the native nation in only 50 years has withered from 400,000 to less than 150,000 souls, and the parson is forced to assume...
Matching our imperialistic impulse, Oglesby continued, is a strong American desire for economic efficiency, obtained by equating public with private interests. "Just as the Inquisition was the Crusades turned inwards, totalitarianism is the logical interior of the mature imperialist state...
...embarrassing start for a trip designed to shine up De Gaulle's image as an anti-imperialist, and heads imme diately rolled. The Governor of French Somaliland was fired, the vice president of the local government council was whisked off for "extended leave" in France, and hundreds of agitators were expelled to the neighboring Somali Re public. Still the riots continued, and last week a disturbed De Gaulle acknowl edged that something might be wrong...