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...TIME expresses surprise that Senator Barry Goldwater is beginning to show some signs of strain [May 15]. It is only natural that a man subjected to so much misinterpretation, misquotation and downright smear attacks should become irritable. We are not dismayed by the fact that the hoopla of a campaign is making our candidate irritable. The qualification for President is not the ability to slap backs or wear funny hats. The qualifications are honesty, integrity and loyalty. Goldwater has these qualifications...
...slogan, "He Cared Enough to Come." It was not Oregon he cared about, but his all-consuming desire to be President. This desire has left New York without a Governor for months at a time. Many Republicans will never forgive him and the so-called Eastern bloc for their smear campaign against Senator Goldwater...
...that alliance with Russia could lead to subordination to Russian intent, has all but cut itself off from communication with the one nation that has come, by historical experience, to agree. Now the U.S. press uncritically reproduces Mikhail Suslov's rejoinder: "The Chinese leaders do all they can to smear the economic assistance which the USSR and other Socialist countries render to the less-developed countries, and try to induce them to question the purpose of the assistance." No effort is being made to show the extent of Soviet intellectual dishonesty in the dispute. The limited critical energies...
...legal issues aside, the protests seem to have been prompted by a feeling that the travel ban stands as a patently hypocritical smear on the face of the Free World. In an article in the Brandeis Justice, Martin Nicolaus, one of the fifty-nine students, tells of meeting an East German technician on the flight from Prague to Havana. The German didn't understand why Americans had to fly to Prague to get to Havana. When the travel ban was explained to him, he smiled understandingly; "Ah, it is clear. It is as if I wanted to travel to West...
Many persons are also intimidated by Vorster's Red-smear campaign against such groups as the Liberal Party and NUSAS. These bodies are still too respectable to be banned out-right. But the smears are clearly directed at preparing public opinion to accept a ban on the leaders of these groups or of the groups themselves...