Word: saneness
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...nothing less than the eventual abolition of war that groups such as SANE are advocating. Not only abolition of war but efforts to deal with an enemy more dangerous and octopal than any we have ever known. Whether or not the audience was conscious of the enormous social changes peace would bring, the problem was surely on the surface of their unconscious. If the immense complexities involved in disarmament was the primary reason for the absence of spontaneous excitement, the still greater difficulties of envisioning a peaceful society ran a close second...
Certainly neither SANE nor any of the disarmament splinter groups has a clear idea of what they should do, although most think they know what should be done. What new techniques for activism can be used to meet this new situation? What are the implications of the necessarily unsubtle techniques now used? One can feel great sympathy, for example, with the pacifist who pickets missle bases until he realizes that this sort of action bears no direct relation to the situation (a technician here is by no means a scab if he crosses the picket line) and that the symbolism...
Obviously, SANE is more likely than the pacifist groups to change society's attitude toward disarmament. It doesn't yet seem to know how. Even "commitment"--the most recurrent word in the lexicon of those who speak on the problem--becomes irrelevant when one realizes what it has meant in the past. For commitment to labor or to anti-fascism meant, in most cases, little reflection and a great deal of action...
...Saturday evening, October 1, 5,000 people came to the "Greater Boston Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy" Rally to hear seven eminent Americans re-iterate the need for world-wide peace and safety, through the discontinuation of nuclear testing. They were handed buttons and stickers saying, "Prevent Nuclear War;" they were asked to contribute money for a building for Boston SANE head-quarters; they were told that we possess the means for our own destruction, and that we must do something about the world situation (write to our congressmen, etc.) before it is too late; they were entertained...
...which party is located the principal support for SANE? The Republican Party? In which, the principal support for United World Federalists? The Republican Party? True liberals (often called "thinking liberals)--those who stand for a negotiated disarmament and for greater use of the United Nations--would do well to think about these questions. Unless revolution is contemplated--and there is something ludicrous in the thought of the HRLU taking to arms.--the liberal movement ought to get used to the idea that there are only two candidates. Liberals must realize that effective lobbying can be carried out only through...