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...Recall. As in most press-fueled controversies, the facts were largely obscured by the furor. Last week's free-for-all started with an article in Look in which CBS Newsman Eric Sevareid described-as he had on TV last summer-a conversation that he had with Adlai Stevenson shortly before his death. In a section buried deep in the article, Sevareid recalled that Stevenson had talked of behind-the-scenes arrangements made by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant in the early fall of 1964 to have a North Vietnamese emissary and a U.S. delegate open talks in neutral...
...Stevenson is quoted as saying that "someone in Washington" had at first said such talks would have to wait until after the presidential election, but when U Thant tried again around the first of the year, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara "flatly opposed the attempt." U Thant was "furious," and "there can be no doubt," wrote Sevareid, "that Adlai Stevenson, who was working closely with U Thant in these attempts, was convinced that these opportunities should have been seized, whatever their ultimate result...
Rusk's Antenna. The essential facts of the story-minus Stevenson's posthumous opinions-were reported when they were first leaked to the press by U Thant early this year. Nonetheless, no sooner had Sevareid's piece appeared last week than reporters demanded more explicit details from the Administration. Secretary McNamara retorted angrily: "There is not one word of truth in the remarks made about me or the position attributed to me." White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers declined even to discuss the story, explaining: "I follow the President's advice of a long time...
...Eleanor Roosevelt Story. "What we have to recall for ourselves," said Adlai Stevenson at her graveside, "is what she was herself. And who can name it?" This intimate, uncritical documentary is an effort to do so in film and in the feelingly written words of Archibald MacLeish, as narrated...
Will the insight of a Willkie or a Stevenson offset the end of insight a McCarthy inspires?...this is the largest challenge the American liberal world has faced, and the payment for meeting it effectively is more than mere survival in an age of world turmoil. It holds out the hope of an inward enrichment of culture and perspective, a "coming of age,"...which in its own right is well worth fighting...