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...other hand, there are no limits to what American power can do to Vietnam. Unleashing on a small country the most destructive firepower ever known to mankind, the United States has brought our nation to the brink of annihilation. The words of the American commander, that "To save Bentre it has become necessary to destroy it," plainly reflect the moral, political and military bankruptcy of American policy in Vietnam. Both self-interest and moral responsibility, then, make it imperative that the people and government of the United States take the lead in ending this conflict...
Club members and other interested persons will make one last attempt to save the club at a meeting March 24. One possible change would be a move to a new location. Rental rates in Harvard Square are to high to allow the club to operate profitably...
...been to treat fellow Republicans as lovingly as an election year will allow. He praised Romney's vigor as a campaigner; he also did his bit to debunk the stalking-horse theory. Romney's withdrawal, he said, "was not designed to stop Nixon. It was designed to save Romney from a defeat...
...push it through. Although Frankfurter had misgivings over Roosevelt's political heavyhandedness, he acquiesced. He was convinced that the Court had provoked reprisals by its exercise of judicial power, and in a letter to F.D.R. dated Feb. 7, 1937, he wrote that "means had to be found to save the Constitution from the Court, and the Court from itself." And as Annotator Freedman points out, he could salve his conscience "with the justified belief that his legal scholarship would save the President from more flagrant blunders...
...basic blame, says Morse, belongs to "patriotic" organizations, which warned against the admission of "undesirable foreigners" to the U.S.; it belongs to Congress, which refused to relax immigration laws even to save doomed children, and to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who feared that "the Jewish issue was a political liability." Above all, Morse blames the State Department, which refused for more than a decade after Hitler's rise to concede that he really was determined to annihilate Europe's Jews. Such an indictment by hindsight seems unduly harsh, particularly since so many Americans-and even so many European...