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...decibels, Vice President Hubert Humphrey's voice still rang out loud and clear in defense of the American stand. In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, Humphrey observed that "the war in Viet Nam is far more than Neville Chamberlain's 'quarrel in a remote country among people of whom we know nothing' "-an allusion to the British Prime Minister's celebrated remark about Hitler's planned invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...though he looks militant enough in the dress blues of the Fruit of Islam, the Black Muslims' Special Forces, Boxer Cassius Clay, 24, is a peaceful sort-as he loudly announced to the U.S. Selective Service when it reclassified him 1-A. "I don't have no quarrel with those Viet Congs," blared the Greatest. So the Illinois Boxing Commission canceled his March 29 title bout with Ernie Terrell in Chicago. Louisville didn't want him either, nor did Pittsburgh or Bangor, Me. At last the desperate Muslim-backed promoters looked outside the country, only...
Last April the Times editorialized: "President Johnson's offer of 'unconditional discussions' was a splendid move on the diplomatic/political front, in the effort to achieve a peaceful solution of the quarrel." Sulzberger dissented: "It is fair to ask why Mr. Johnson chose this moment seemingly to alter a Viet Nam strategy that had but recently become more resolute. Waving a carrot may be seen by our adversaries as a sign of weakness." Times editorials have consistently called for deescalation: "What the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam is playing directly into the hands of Communist China...
...week, having accomplished his dual aim of venting labor's frustrations and warning Congress that it would be wise to pacify them in an election year, Meany insisted that he had neither caused nor sought a split with the Johnson Administration. It was, said he, "just a family quarrel...
...successive mobs until chaos set in . . . I am deeply troubled with the fear that powerful private groups throughout the nation will read the court's action as I do-that is, as granting them a license to invade the tranquillity and beauty of our libraries whenever they have quarrel with some state policy that may or may not exist. It is an unhappy circumstance, in my judgment, that the group which more than any other has needed a government of equal laws and equal justice, is now encouraged to believe that the best way for it to advance...