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Four professors, it said, had organized two Colorado teach-ins, and these four were close friends of two other professors who were ex-members of the Communist Party. One of them, at a teach-in, had called President Johnson, Secretary Rusk, and Adlai Stevenson international outlaws. A second teach-in was "much worse;" propaganda leaflets were distributed and a Communist film shown twice. Furthermore, the report said that the four professors controlled the Colorado Daily, the student-subsidized newspaper. The paper, said the report, "is being used to extend the influence of that particular group." "The net result is that...
...Vietnam policy. One of the four professors charged with "friendship" with the two ex-Communists had never met them; another was acquainted with them professionally. Only one considered himself a "close friend" of the two men, both respected, tenured faculty members. Professor Richard Wilson denied calling Johnson, Rusk, and Stevenson outlaws, and all hands agreed that the Communist film had not been shown at the teach-in in question. It had been shown at a later meeting, but on that occasion pro-Administration speakers outnumbered their opponents...
...STEVENSON WIT (RCA Victor) consists of excerpts from the speeches, press conferences and off-the-cuff remarks of the late ambassador, strung together with remarks by David Brinkley. Though Stevenson's wit was warm and enlightening, he was not a comic, and to isolate his jokes from the eloquent purposes they served does him no great service and gives the listener little sustenance...
Last week, "in the interest of history," Stevenson's son, Adlai III, released a seven-page letter that his father had composed three days before he died. Written in reply to a group of American artists, writers and scientists who had urged Stevenson to quit, the letter flatly contradicted what some called "the Stevenson tragedy." The group's arguments, Stevenson wrote, "rest on a simple presupposition: that I share your belief in the disastrous trend of American foreign policy. But it is precisely this presupposition that I do not share with you. Whatever criticisms may be made over...
Noting that "history does not always give us the most convenient choice," Stevenson reasoned: "I do not think the idea of Chinese expansionism is so fanciful that the effort to check it is irrational. And if you argue that it should not be checked, then I believe you set us off on the old, old route whereby expansive powers push at more and more doors, believing they will open until, at the ultimate door, resistance is unavoidable and major war breaks out . . . This is the point of the conflict in Viet...