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...HAVE lived 78 years without hearing of bloody places 1 like Cambodia," said Winston Churchill some years before his death. "They have never worried me and I haven't worried them." This remark, recalled by the great man's physician, Lord Moran, was very Churchillian and very 19th century. It was the remark of a man who, despite a keen global vision, still thought it easy for the West to regard itself as the center of the world. To many of his era the periphery of that world lay somewhere in the jungle, well beyond the enclave...
...That remark might well be dismissed as an attempt at wit by a literate and witty professor. Galbraith, however, certainly did not consider it so. Later he added that-although he does not advocate direct U.S. withdrawal-Viet Nam is "a country which has not the slightest strategic importance." His neo-isolationism is less significant as a personal viewpoint than as a measure of a growing tendency among academics and other critics of U.S. policy to believe that Viet Nam is simply not very important to the U,S. It also reflects the feelings of a great many other Americans...
...Quoted as finding "something morally questionable" in the deferment of students [March 25], I want to put this remark into its wider context by adding that I have long wanted to see a national system of service established that would permit young people to enter the Peace Corps or similar (sometimes hazardous) agencies as a legitimate alternative to military service. Moreover, many students, as you suggest, are troubled by this issue, complicated as it is by their often finding the war in Viet Nam itself morally questionable. A lottery, while in some sense more democratic, contributes nothing to the problem...
Master Bruce Chalmers of Winthrop House slouches down in his easy chair and regards you inquisitively; before long, you're talking and he's listening. If you make a chance remark about how Harvard education might be bettered, he quickly encourages you to continue, and you've usually hit upon something that he's thought about himself...
...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...