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...INTO THIS crisis comes Daniel Patrick Moynihan with gung-ho junior officer's rhetoric couched in references to Yeats and Locke. On the one hand he claims, we are the world's greatest democracy in terms of liberties and affluence--"find its equal," he has written. But Americans are also in a dangerous time, paralyzed by failure of nerve; we are threatened with our foreign policy "elites" making "an accommodation to totalitarianism without precedent in our history." Perhaps Nixon made his peace with Mao and Brezhnev, and detente was the order of election year 1972--but this has changed; Moynihan...
...misconceptions Moynihan has foisted on an anomic public desperately wanting to believe in an American "purpose" are incredible. He claimed last October 3 at an AFL-CIO convention, that Israel is hated by the third world because it is a democracy. Moynihan did not mention the question of Palestinian refugees, the economic inequities visited on underdeveloped nations by Israel's chief backer, U.S. policy in Chile and Indo-China or the consistent support of the American government for South Africa and Rhodesia. Moynihan's reason for third world hostility toward this country sounds like something from the American right...
Since assuming the ambassadorship to the United Nations, Moynihan has discarded the sophisticated--and more moderate--husk of his polemic, leaving the simplistic fruit intact. In an article in the March, 1975 Commentary Moynihan classed the underdeveloped nations as a true third force in world politics: They were democratic socialist, in line with a West European colonial experience. He described these nations as by and large anti-American and redistributionist (rather than production-oriented, since he says socialism cannot be productive. Here Moynihan forgets the Soviet Union, which is unusual if only because it seems to dominate all his other...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Professor of Government, and former ambassador to the United Nations and ambassador to India, will deliver the principal speech at the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA) on Commencement afternoon, June...
David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History, Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government, and Orlando H.L. Patterson, professor of Sociology, were all members of the conference committee which discussed the ramifications of the 1974 UNESCO resolution charging Israel with jeopardizing Moslem monuments during archeological excavations in Jerusalem...