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...Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, said that the fact that Haldeman and Ehrlichman were political amateurs contributed to the "lack of political judgment" evidenced by the Watergate affair...
...attitude among moderate students was dramatically reversed at the March 1970 Faculty meeting which adopted a permanent Resolution. Conservative Faculty watered down the admittedly weak section on Administrative responsibility by passing an amendment saying, in effect, that two wrongs don't make a right.' The amendment, sponsored by Arthur Maass. Thomson Professor of Government, pompously explained that "no violation of the members of the University, nor any failure to meet responsibilities, should be interpreted as justifying any violations by members of the University...
...Maass amendment, and other alterations of language in the main body of the Resolution, effectively severed student actions from both their political context and the question of Administration responsibility. The Resolution had never been one of the great charter documents of Western democracy, but it at least initially appeared to be an even-handed directive to all segments of the University community. Following these revisions, the Resolution served exclusively as a blueprint for disciplining unruly students without caring a whit for the political reasons that had prompted their unrest...
...rebels were no geniuses. One coup leader, separated from his troops, wandered around in the July heat of Vienna "disguised" in an overcoat. But the government bumbling allowed the rebels access to the Ballhausplatz (the residence of Austria's Chancellor), where one of them, Otto Planetta, shot Dollfuss. Maass concedes Planetta may only have been "trigger-happy," but the conspirators completed the crime by refusing Dollfuss both a doctor and a priest. Because the Chancellor had sent his Cabinet away, the coup did not destroy the government. The plotters were executed. Germany was still too weak to intervene...
...church bells pealing for him. The next day Hitler was already able to fly back to Germany, looking down on Austrian hills from his plane window. "All that," he said with satisfaction, "is Germany now." But the Anschluss lived only as long as the Reich. The post war generation, Maass notes, possessed the "self-confidence to go it alone"-and despite Austria's perilous position between East and West, has done just that. · Mayo Mahs